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AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) vs Collibra Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 9, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

AtScale Adaptive Analytics ...
Ranking in Data Governance
47th
Average Rating
5.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Data Virtualization (6th), BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (57th), BI on Hadoop (2nd)
Collibra Platform
Ranking in Data Governance
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
Metadata Management (1st), AI Governance (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Collibra Platform is 8.8%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Governance Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Collibra Platform8.8%
AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3)0.4%
Other90.8%
Data Governance
 

Featured Reviews

it_user822762 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI and Reporting Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The GUI interface is nice and easy to use, but the organization of the icons is not saved across users
Connecting to a Hadoop database to create a cube to connect to Tableau. We want to be able to easily create cubes which can be connected to Tableau for visualization The product had many issues. We had great collaboration with the product development team, but the product was not able to meet our…
reviewer2774796 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Governance System Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Data governance has unified definitions and saves audit preparation time across the enterprise
A separate team did the setup for this tool and was involved in setting it up. When they were doing the setup, it was a significant upfront investment in terms of the configuration, modeling, and governance design because the team first had to define the domains, the assets, and the roles. That takes time, and in the insurance environment where we had many legacy systems, this increased the setup effort. It would be helpful if Collibra Platform could have industry specific starter templates that could accelerate adoption. As we ingested more and more metadata, sometimes the catalog searches became slower by a fraction of a second because there was more metadata in the tool. After inserting millions of rows into the physical data dictionaries, the catalog searches could become a little bit slower. Having some better performance optimization might help with this minor issue.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The GUI interface is nice and easy to use."
"The workflow is very good and has been embedded. It also has a great user interface."
"The workflows allow the creation of custom workflows based on needs."
"The diagram showing the limits is absolutely magnificent."
"The solution's most valuable feature is data cataloging."
"I would recommend Collibra Governance depending on the needs of the company."
"There is a good community setup around the solution that can provide insights."
"The most valuable features of Collibra Catalog are its customizability and ease of use."
"It helps us build a powerful workflow mechanism where there can be any stewardship, including issue management governing assets using policies, regulations, or business rules."
 

Cons

"The product was not able to meet our 10 second refresh requirements."
"The organization of the icons is not saved across users."
"There was an issue with the incremental aggregation not working as indicated."
"There's still room for improvement in Collibra Governance. Right now, the solution focuses more on publishing and subscription where metadata is being consumed from all systems and processes within Collibra Governance. I'd like to see more features around external systems that let those systems start consuming or start referring things from Collibra Governance automatically, in particular, more API-based integrations, so the solution can truly work as an enterprise governance tool at the heart of the organization. There have been many cases where business stakeholders feel, "Okay. I'll be doing a manual activity because every time I have to maintain and make sure that the solution is working, for example, ensuring the reporting works, I have to go to Collibra Governance." I want this step taken out of the equation, and it has to be an automatic conversion or automatic notification that something has changed. Scalability also needs improvement in the solution. If there could be some sort of self-service where people can customize the solution a bit more, that would make Collibra Governance better. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is an enhanced search feature because it's what users want to use. You want to search for a term and get all details in one go. Right now, if you type a term in the Collibra Governance global search function, it returns a lot of results that you need to know how to filter and what to filter, so there should be automatic filters that give accurate information to somebody who does a search on the solution. I want Collibra Governance to provide a capability where you can search and get relevant information."
"Connectivity with different applications could be improved."
"In terms of improvements, I would highlight a few points that could be enhanced in the Collibra Data Intelligence Platform."
"The connectors for metadata ingestion need to be improved."
"Recently, I find that the default process of issue management in Collibra is really complex — It wasn't really helpful to us."
"The solution's search functionality can be improved"
"From a usability perspective, customers usually find some areas of the solution a bit complex. It takes a long time for the customers to get used to the UI and the interface."
"Many other tools like Collibra Governance give you the option to actually see the data in the tool, which is not an option in Collibra."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Collibra Governance is an expensive solution."
"I am not so much aware of price details. Initially, there was an add-on NuSoft license to use the DVC connector that NuSoft gives to create integrations, but Collibra is now phasing out of it slowly. Collibra is cutting ties with them is what we have been led to believe, and we have started developing on Spring Boot, which is open source."
"It is substantial, and we do pay yearly."
"Collibra Governance is expensive - I would rate its pricing as one out of five."
"Collibra Catalog is fairly priced - I would rate their pricing seven out of ten."
"There are different levels of licenses. For example, some users can only do read-only licenses, and others have the stewardship license where they can give access to users."
"I think they have a trust issue. I did not like the way they recently went through the process. They were like, "Finish this SOW first, only then will we sign the other SOW." Or, "Finish this code." I didn't like that much."
"I think it is on a yearly basis, but I'm not involved with the pricing session, so I have no idea. There are several licenses for different models. You get one license per product, but a lot of features are controlled separately through different licenses. So, as and when you want to use a feature, you have to procure the license for that feature."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Healthcare Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Media Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise55
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with Collibra Data Intelligence Platform?
A separate team did the setup for this tool and was involved in setting it up. When they were doing the setup, it was a significant upfront investment in terms of the configuration, modeling, and g...
What is your primary use case for Collibra Data Intelligence Platform?
I am a user who has worked at companies that use Collibra Platform as their data catalog and data intelligence platform tool. My first company, MetLife, used Collibra Platform, but I wouldn't know ...
What advice do you have for others considering Collibra Data Intelligence Platform?
My advice to others looking into using Collibra Platform is to use it in cloud because that is the best solution. I give this review a rating of 10 out of 10.
 

Also Known As

AtScale, AtScale Intelligence Platform
Data Intelligence Platform, Collibra AI Governance, Collibra Catalog, Collibra Governance, Collibra Lineage, Collibra Privacy & Risk
 

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