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AI Vault vs Quest Data Intelligence comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 16, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AI Vault
Ranking in Data Governance
33rd
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Quest Data Intelligence
Ranking in Data Governance
15th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Metadata Management (7th), AI Governance (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of AI Vault is 0.4%. The mindshare of Quest Data Intelligence is 3.0%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Governance Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Quest Data Intelligence3.0%
AI Vault0.4%
Other96.6%
Data Governance
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2751876 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Secure access to LLM supports confidential document collaboration
We have used AI Vault for research and for help in putting together internal documents The quick, easy, and secure access to a LLM has enabled us to use these facilities without fear of information being shared elsewhere. As mentioned above, the security and anonymity of the product are…
Jog Raj - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Automated lineage and business glossaries have improved data understanding and collaboration
I am open to answering a few questions about erwin Data Intelligence and sharing my opinion about the product. Regarding the analytic part of the product, I find it very interesting that erwin Data Intelligence has its own inbuilt reporting toolset, with a new version coming out in January that will be AI-powered. This means you will be able to write analytical reports and questions based on the metadata and data lineage, making it more powerful than the current version, as AI will assist in creating those reports and performing analysis on the metadata. I find that the time taken to realize value from erwin Data Intelligence can be quite long. Creating a data catalog and developing data lineage takes significant time, and I expect that AI will help accelerate the process of creating data products by streamlining the steps involved. I can recommend erwin Data Intelligence to other users. I would rate this review as an eight out of ten overall.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The quick, easy, and secure access to a LLM has enabled us to use these facilities without fear of information being shared elsewhere."
"The way it processes contemporaneous research prompts is much better than Chat GPT; it gives more fullsome answers that combine current data with the existing training data."
"When you combine it with data lineage, every time you need to make a change, it allows you to do impact analysis on any changes and then connect to the end-users or data stewards so that they can be aware that a change is coming. That's one of the main benefits we use it for."
"The main benefits erwin Data Intelligence provides to me include better decision-making, saving money and time by applying governance policies and procedures on the actual technical data, ensuring decisions are based on KPIs that are governed from source to end, and providing functionality for data classification to prevent unauthorized access through integration with the infrastructure team using DLP methodology."
"The client is thrilled with higher quality, lower-cost products, and the services."
"This type of solution was key to moving our entire company in the right direction by getting everyone to think about data governance."
"I can estimate that we lowered our time to market by 70 percent right now using these automation scripts, which is a really big thing."
"The possibility to write automation scripts is the biggest benefit for us. We have several products with metadata and metadata mapping capabilities. The big difference when we were choosing this product was the ability to run automation scripts against metadata and metadata mappings. Right now, we have a very high level of automation based on these automation scripts, so it's really the core feature for us."
"Data Intelligence creates a single source of truth for all of our metadata. This solution is better for data warehousing, but the metadata features speed up our development work. It's easy to create and manage mappings because we can export them to Informatica and pick up the work where we left off."
"The automated data lineage and impact analysis being driven from the mapping documents are astounding in reducing the time to research impact analysis from six to 16 weeks down to minutes, because it's a couple of clicks with a mouse."
 

Cons

"Some of the consoles are still a bit clunky; there is room for improvement there."
"Any changes would be cosmetic; the interface could be smartened up."
"There are always ways to improve things. For example, we can use AI to be able to find out something. When we are typing something, if we don't know the exact term, Artificial Intelligence would be useful to find terms that are phonetically or syntactically similar. Instead of having to type in the exact name, they can provide those in the list. So, they can provide AI support for the search because when you have thousands and thousands of terms, it is hard to remember all the names."
"There were some issues when drawing the data models. If you have more than 500 or 600 tables, it takes a long time to display those in the right position on the screen."
"The solution's Arabic language processing is limited. The results are limited when you use the interface in Arabic."
"I find that the time taken to realize value from erwin Data Intelligence can be quite long."
"It's a little bit clunky. I think a lot of these features were bolted on, and they don't necessarily transition smoothly in the interface. I would like to see a little more cohesion."
"There is room for improvement in automation, no question."
"We chose to implement on an Oracle Database because we also had the erwin Data Modeler and Web Portal products in-house, which have been set up on Oracle Databases for many years. Sometimes the Oracle Database installation has caused some hiccups that wouldn't necessarily have been caused if we had used SQL Server."
"The data quality assessment requires third-party components and a separate license."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I am not very familiar with its pricing. I know it is not cheap, but it is also not super expensive. It depends on the company size. For a company making $1 million, it is very expensive. For a company making 10 million and above, it might be okay."
"Smart Data Connectors have some costs, and then there are user-based licenses. We spend roughly $150,000 per year on the solution. It is a yearly subscription license that basically includes the cost for Smart Data Connectors and user-based licenses. We have around 30 data stewards who maintain definitions, and then we have five IT users who basically maintain the overall solution. It is not a SaaS kind of operation, and there is an infrastructure cost to host this solution, which is our regular AWS hosting cost."
"We operate on a yearly subscription and because it is an enterprise license we only have one. It is not dependent on the number of users."
"The price is reasonable, and a subscription is required."
"There is an additional fee for the server maintenance."
"The licensing cost was very affordable at the time of purchase. It has since been taken over by erwin, then Quest. The tool has gotten a bit more costly, but they are adding more features very quickly."
"Erwin Data Catalog is very expensive."
"erwin's pricing was cheaper than its competitors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
41%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Transportation Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise16
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with AI Vault?
Any changes would be cosmetic; the interface could be smartened up.
What is your primary use case for AI Vault?
We have used AI Vault for research and for help in putting together internal documents.
What needs improvement with erwin Data Intelligence by Quest?
In my opinion, the analytics part of erwin Data Intelligence is not satisfactory. The name 'Intelligence' is not related specifically to analytics; it is focused on data governance with no advanced...
What is your primary use case for erwin Data Intelligence by Quest?
My main use case for erwin Data Intelligence is applying it and the DQ Labs in a financial institution.
What advice do you have for others considering erwin Data Intelligence by Quest?
The integration of business glossaries has significantly helped improve collaboration in our organization. We define the business glossaries first during meetings with the business, and then we bul...
 

Also Known As

AI Vault Saas Edition
erwin DG, erwin Data Governance, erwin Data Catalog
 

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Sample Customers

Information Not Available
Oracle, Infosys, GSK, Toyota Motor Sales, HSBC
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