Astronomer vs Alation: What are the differences?

Developers describe Astronomer as "Capture every user event and route them anywhere. Automatically". Astronomer is a data engineering platform that collects, processes and unifies enterprise data so you can get straight to analytics, data science and insights. Astronomer Clickstream captures valuable user events and routes them straight to all your favorite tools or a data warehouse for analytics. All in real time. On the other hand, Alation is detailed as "Enterprise Data Catalog & Data Governance". The leader in collaborative data cataloging, it empowers analysts & information stewards to search, query & collaborate for fast and accurate insights.

Astronomer and Alation can be primarily classified as "Analytics Integrator" tools.

Some of the features offered by Astronomer are:

• VPC Deployment - Control your infrastructure on your private cloud
• Real-time monitoring - See for yourself that your data is flowing smoothly
• Robust library - and when you need a new connector, just ask

On the other hand, Alation provides the following key features:

• Data Catalog
• Automatically indexes your data by source
• Automatically gathers knowledge about your data