When it comes to data catalogs, not all solutions are created equal – and the tell is in how they define their cloud infrastructure. Many claim to be cloud-based or cloud-enabled, but that just means their applications were built traditionally (on-prem) and then migrated to the cloud. The truth is, this doesn’t offer modern enterprises the scale or flexibility needed to maintain agile growth. Only a cloud-native data catalog can deliver on that promise. Here are two reasons why.
Enterprise scalability
Cloud-native data catalogs are built on a microservices architecture. AWS defines microservices architecture as “an architectural and organizational approach to software development where software is composed of small independent services that communicate over well-defined APIs.” A major benefit of this model is that it is fast to deploy and easy to scale.
Deploying a cloud-native data catalog can be done much more quickly than a cloud-based or cloud-enabled one. Traditionally built catalogs typically require software to be set up and/or hardware to be provisioned. A cloud-native data catalog needs none of that.
Home to the world’s largest open data community, data.world is proof of the scale that can be achieved using a cloud-native data catalog. More than 1.5 million people use our platform to share and discover new insights daily – all from the same instance. That translates to our enterprise offering as well. We are relentless in our pursuit of customer adoption. In fact, we’re bonused on it – even the CEO.
Continuous release cycle
Another benefit of being cloud native and running on microservices architecture is having the ability to ship rapid updates and enhancements. Each component is built separately, so there’s no code sharing – all communication between autonomous components is through a lightweight API.
Cloud-based data catalogs take significantly more effort to maintain because they are generally built on monolithic architectures with tightly coupled code and processes. As the complexity of the code grows, it becomes more difficult to add or improve features as the application functions as a single entity.
At data.world, our product and engineering team ship more than one thousand product updates annually. You don’t have to wait months for an enhancement. It all happens automatically behind the scenes, like magic.
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Now that you know the advantages of cloud-native versus cloud-based data catalogs, are you ready to see data.world in action? Take a tour of our cloud-native enterprise data catalog today.
