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Data Catalog Software · Rank #7 of 10

DataHub review and pricing

LinkedIn-originated open-source catalog with Acryl Data behind the commercial offering.

By Acryl Data · Founded 2020 · San Francisco, CA · private

DataHub is the most-adopted open-source data catalog, originally built at LinkedIn and open-sourced in 2019-2020. Acryl Data was founded in 2020 by the original LinkedIn DataHub team to commercialize a managed cloud offering (Acryl Cloud) on top of the open-source core. Raised $26M Series A in 2022. Strengths: production-grade open source with a real corporate sponsor, strong engineering-led adoption, broad connector ecosystem, and the most-cited reference catalog in the data-engineering community. Trade-offs: self-hosted DataHub requires non-trivial DevOps capacity, and Acryl Cloud (the managed offering) is the path enterprises typically pick once volume becomes serious.

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Best for

Engineering-led data platform teams (200-50,000 employees) with DevOps capacity, or enterprises wanting open-source insurance with optional managed cloud (Acryl Cloud).

Worst for

SMBs without DevOps capacity (Secoda or Atlan easier), regulated buyers needing formal governance workflows (Collibra deeper), or teams wanting time-to-value in days.

Vendor Trust Score

Is DataHub a trustworthy vendor?

8.3/10
High trust
Pricing transparency
Published rates; no hidden fees
6.5
Contract fairness
Reasonable terms; no auto-renew traps
8.0
Incident response
How they handle outages and breaches
8.5
Post-acquisition behavior
Customer treatment after M&A or PE
9.0
Executive stability
Leadership churn over 24 months
9.0
Roadmap honesty
Public commitments held
8.5
Trust signal log
  • 2020-08-04
    DataHub open-sourced from LinkedIn
  • 2022-04-20
    $26M Series A for Acryl Data
    Round led by 8VC; Acryl Data positioned as commercial entity behind DataHub.
  • 2024-06-12
    Acryl Cloud GA across regions
  • 2025-09-30
    DataHub 1.0 milestone release
    Stabilized metadata graph and lineage parity across major warehouse and BI integrations.
Vendor Trust is scored independently of product quality. A great product from an unfair vendor still earns a low trust score.
Review Intelligence

What 85 reviews actually say

Synthesized from G2, Capterra, Reddit, Trustpilot. Patterns >15% prevalence shown.

Last synthesized
2026-04-29

Praise patterns

  • Production-grade open source with real corporate sponsor
    87% →
  • Strong engineering-led adoption and community velocity
    71% →
  • Broad connector ecosystem out of the box
    51% →
  • Apache 2.0 license, no rug-pull risk on the core
    41% →

Complaint patterns

  • Self-hosted requires meaningful DevOps capacity
    71% →
  • UI and onboarding less polished than Atlan and Secoda
    51% →
  • Two-track product (OSS vs Acryl Cloud) creates feature friction
    38% →
  • Acryl Cloud pricing opaque
    31% →
Sentiment trend (6 months)
83/100 +2 pts
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Representative voices

  • “We ran DataHub OSS for 18 months on Kubernetes, then moved to Acryl Cloud. The OSS was great. The infra cost was higher than the managed bill.”

    Staff Platform Engineer, marketplace· Reddit r/dataengineering · 2026-03-04

Patterns are extracted from review corpus and human-verified. We surface trends, not anecdotes.
Verified Pricing

What buyers actually pay

58 anonymized deal disclosures · last updated 2026-05-01

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Company size Median annual
200-1,000 employees $72,000
1,000-5,000 employees $192,000
5,000+ employees $480,000
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Editorial: Strengths

  • Production-grade open source with real corporate sponsor (Acryl Data)
  • Strong engineering-led adoption (LinkedIn, Saxo, AirAsia, Pinterest references)
  • Broad connector ecosystem
  • Active metadata graph architecture
  • Apache 2.0 license; no rug-pull risk on the core
  • Acryl Cloud managed offering for teams without DevOps capacity
  • Strong community contribution velocity

Editorial: Weaknesses

  • Self-hosted requires meaningful DevOps capacity (Kafka, Elasticsearch, MySQL)
  • Acryl Cloud pricing opaque; enterprise floor typical
  • UI and onboarding less polished than Atlan and Secoda
  • Governance depth still trails Collibra at the high enterprise tier
  • Two-track product (OSS and Acryl Cloud) creates feature parity friction

Key features & integrations

  • +Active metadata graph
  • +Column-level lineage
  • +Data quality assertions (DataHub Actions)
  • +Business glossary and ontology
  • +Search and discovery
  • +Stewardship workflows
  • +Open-source with Apache 2.0 license
  • +Acryl Cloud managed offering
90+ integrations
SnowflakeBigQueryDatabricksdbtAirflowKafkaLookerTableau
Geography supported
Global; strongest in US, EU, India
Best fit
200-100,000+ employees · Engineering-led teams, mid-market through enterprise
Editorial deep-dive

Read our full ranking of Data Catalog Software

DataHub ranks #7 in our editorial review of 10 data catalog software platforms. The deep-dive covers methodology, comparison tables, decision matrix, migration scoring, and FAQs.

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