Coalesce Catalog (formerly CastorDoc) Reviews & Product Details

The lineage feature has made data discovery much simpler, and connecting to different data sources is an easy process.

I also find the Search & SQL AI agent to be a highly useful tool.

Having a single, unified platform for our entire data environment has turned out to be extremely powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One limitation is that we are unable to connect other AI agents directly to the Catalog knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using CastorDoc is very simple and intuitive. It is a powerful tool for data governance in a company as it can be used to provide comprehensive information about any data objects, from the connections between database tables, to how a column is generated, to business rules used in data transformations, to reports/dashboards descriptions.

I truly like the diagram-like lineage view for tables and columns particularly, that easily show how data objects are created. These are very useful for sharing knowledge and onboard new team members / stakeholders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far, I haven't found negative aspects of CastorDoc relevant enough to share. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integration with slack makes it easy to use. Whenever I want info about any data I just have to mentioned castor about it and it gives me result about that particular data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing as of now. I didnot face any issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Castor is very straightforward and easy to use, navigate, and search to find our data, determine what it is, and how it's all connected. It's been a vital resource in helping build out and maintain our vast data bank.

I also love that it is continuing to advance its capabilities and features. They are receptive to feedback and requests and make things happen for our use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A little more automation with copied descriptions would be helpful. There are instances where data is the same and we have to copy and paste multiple times in different areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Castor has all the essential features to make your data discoverable, self describing and trustworthy.

The navigation through Castor is simple and intuitive, which makes it usable and useful for the whole company (and not only for data people)

The product roadmap is very rich and brings new features to the users every month.

The team is very nice, reactive, helpful and customer-oriented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'd like to have more detailed statistics on the usage of the data catalog to organise the knowledge sections for the best. But I believe that this feature is coming soon... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The entire team at Castor has been very collaborative while we worked through the process of starting data governance at our organization. I have felt a high level of communication with timely responses to any of the users' questions our team could come up with. The features promised by Castor include our Data Catalog, Lineage, Governance and Knowledge base are all top-of-the-line tools for our team.

In addition to the things listed above, the Castor team has always been willing to work with our engineers to evaluate new integrations and features that we quickly released in the software. If something is not available today, it will be soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data governance is a challenging conversation to have in any organization. Castor makes this conversation easier once we have information flowing into the software. Many of us could use a playbook to motivate our organization so we can use the tools sooner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Efficient and user-friendly, CastorDoc offers excellent document management and strong security features. The customer support is notably responsive and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For users with specific needs, the addition of more advanced customization options would enhance CastorDoc's versatility. Also, optimizing performance during peak hours could further streamline the user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Being able to identify the table and column lineage, from the staging tables all the way to the BI tools such as Looker and Power BI

- The popularity index, which allows to identify the most used tables and most viewed dashboards. It has been helping with our deprecation plan.

- The search bar is very powerful because it allows you to filter by table and column names, as well as dashboards.

- The platform is being constantly updated with new features.

- The support team and very responsive and takes into consideration our feedbacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The column lineage can be helpful to identify if the column is being used downstream. However, if the column is only being used downstream to create new columns, the lineage doesn't idenfity this dependency. This makes it hard to identify any column dependencies if we want to deprecate a staging table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Castor is helping us enormously in our migration efforts from our old data infrastructure to the new. It is helping us fast-track our delivery in many ways:

1. Identifying assets that are frequently used in the old and prioritising those for migration

2. Identifying unused or minimum used assets for retirement and deprecation

3. Identifying who are the frequent users to assign owners of data assets

4. Identifying impact of changes we intend to make on downstream assets/dependencies

We now have the potential to unify our data definitions across our data assets and avoid duplicating or contradicting definitions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Product is constantly changing, so sometimes challenging to keep up with the pace. Alongside this change, we have seen some bugs creep in, but Castor has been super efficient in resolving issues that arise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Castor is my go-to tool when I have any doubts about the definition of a field, where to find it or the dependencies it may have.

It's very user friendly and they are adding more and more functionalities that adapt to our needs.

Having this connected with our visualisation tool is an amazing improvement. We can see the most viewed dashboards as well as the data sources they use and a direct link to the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The option to export all downstream nodes of a column or field is not as detailed as it could be (e.g. link to dashboard) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.