datahub/docs/managed-datahub/managed-datahub-overview.md

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title: "DataHub Cloud vs. DataHub OSS"
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# DataHub Cloud vs. DataHub OSS

## DataHub Cloud: AI & Data Context Platform

DataHub Cloud delivers a fully-managed version of DataHub's powerful metadata platform, offering enhanced capabilities for data discovery, observability, and governance that accelerate the production-readiness of your data and AI assets.

### Enterprise-Grade Service

- **Proven Implementation Service** tailored to your organization's specific needs
- **SLA-Backed Reliability** ensuring 99.5% uptime for critical operations
- **Optimized Performance** with infrastructure fine-tuned and managed by experts
- **Flexible Deployment Options** for the most sensitive data scenarios
- **Enhanced Security Controls** meeting enterprise compliance requirements

### Accelerated Adoption

- **Comprehensive Team Training** to maximize platform utilization
- **Expert Support** providing guidance through your data journey

### Add-on Capabilities

- **Enhanced Discovery & Understanding** with personalized user experiences, AI-generated documentation and propagation, and collaboration features
- **Improved Data Quality Monitoring** with ability to run quality checks, use AI anomaly detection, and comprehensively monitor data assets
- **Robust Governance Mechanisms** with dynamic compliance forms, certification & approval workflows, and enforced governance standards

DataHub Cloud empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their data assets through superior discovery capabilities, comprehensive observability, and robust governance—all within a managed, secure environment.

## Enterprise-Grade Managed Service

Features needed to roll out at scale to large enterprises.

| Feature                                                                                                 | DataHub | DataHub Cloud |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------- |
| Battle-tested open source metadata platform                                                             | ✅      | ✅            |
| Metadata change events as a real-time consumable stream                                                 | ✅      | ✅            |
| Pre-defined roles for permissions                                                                       | ✅      | ✅            |
| 99.5% Uptime SLA                                                                                        | ❌      | ✅            |
| In-VPC Remote Execution Agent to run tasks that communicate with sensitive data sources                 | ❌      | ✅            |
| Data off-ramp for metadata analytics                                                                    | ❌      | ✅            |
| Enterprise RBAC support with additional permissions for declaring domain- or attribute-scoped personas. | ❌      | ✅            |
| Shared audit logs                                                                                       | ❌      | ✅            |
| SOC-2 Compliant                                                                                         | ❌      | ✅            |

## Implementation and Support

Features related to ease of deployment and maintenance.

| Feature                                                    | DataHub | DataHub Cloud                                                                                                                                           |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Community support                                          | ✅      | ✅                                                                                                                                                      |
| Your own engineering team                                  | ✅      | ❌ (They can instead focus on high-value work like contributing features to the open source product, or build amazing data applications with the APIs!) |
| Your private fork of DataHub                               | ✅      | ❌ (You won't need to manage and maintain your own fork, upgrade to latest releases etc.)                                                               |
| Cloud-hosted instance (AWS, GCP, BYOC)                     | ❌      | ✅                                                                                                                                                      |
| Monitored and managed by DataHub engineers                 | ❌      | ✅                                                                                                                                                      |
| Dedicated customer success team                            | ❌      | ✅                                                                                                                                                      |
| Implementation Advisory and Support                        | ❌      | ✅                                                                                                                                                      |
| Ingestion Support                                          | ❌      | ✅                                                                                                                                                      |
| Accelerators for your code contributions to DataHub        | ❌      | ✅                                                                                                                                                      |
| Support for AWS PrivateLink, IP address restrictions, etc. | ❌      | ✅                                                                                                                                                      |
| Dedicated Zendesk Support                                  | ❌      | ✅                                                                                                                                                      |

## Data Discovery

Features aimed at making it easy to discover data assets at your organization and understand relationships between them.

| Feature                                                                                              | DataHub | DataHub Cloud |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------- |
| Integrations for 70+ data sources                                                                    | ✅      | ✅            |
| Metadata transformers to enrich metadata at ingestion time                                           | ✅      | ✅            |
| Table level, Column-level, Job-level lineage                                                         | ✅      | ✅            |
| Search across all metadata (technical, operational, business)                                        | ✅      | ✅            |
| Table and column-level lineage and impact analysis                                                   | ✅      | ✅            |
| Support for domains, data products, data contracts                                                   | ✅      | ✅            |
| Developer friendly experiences (for data engineers, AI engineers, etc.)                              | ✅      | ✅            |
| Business User friendly experiences (for data analysts, BI analysts, data governance leads, PMs etc.) | ✅      | ✅            |
| Personalization across the product                                                                   | ✅      | ✅            |
| Browser extension for BI Tools                                                                       | ✅      | ✅            |
| Lineage-based propagation of documentation, glossary terms, & more                                   | ❌      | ✅            |
| Usage and graph-based search ranking                                                                 | ❌      | ✅            |
| AI Data Documentation Generation                                                                     | ❌      | ✅            |
| AI Data Classification                                                                               | ❌      | ✅            |
| Subscribe to assets, activity, and notifications                                                     | ❌      | ✅            |
| Email, Slack, & Microsoft Teams notifications                                                        | ❌      | ✅            |
| Customizable Home Page and Asset Summaries                                                           | ❌      | ✅ **(beta)** |
| **Ask DataHub** - AI assistant in Slack & Microsoft Teams                                            | ❌      | ✅ **(beta)** |
| Invite Users via Email & User Invite Recommendations                                                 | ❌      | ✅            |

## Data Observability

Features that help you ensure your data pipelines are producing high quality
assets, and if they're not, making sure you and impacted users are the first to
know.

| Feature                                                      | DataHub | DataHub Cloud |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------- | ------------- |
| Surface data quality results across the catalog              | ✅      | ✅            |
| Data Quality Impact Analysis in Lineage                      | ✅      | ✅            |
| Create Data Contracts                                        | ✅      | ✅            |
| Manage Data Incidents                                        | ✅      | ✅            |
| Rich In-Slack Incident management                            | ❌      | ✅            |
| Run Data Quality checks in-VPC                               | ❌      | ✅            |
| AI Anomaly Detection for Freshness, Volume, and Column stats | ❌      | ✅            |
| Bulk Configure AI Anomaly Detection                          | ❌      | ✅            |
| Monitor Freshness SLAs                                       | ❌      | ✅            |
| Monitor Table Schemas                                        | ❌      | ✅            |
| Monitor Table Volume                                         | ❌      | ✅            |
| Monitor Column Quality                                       | ❌      | ✅            |
| Monitor with Custom SQL                                      | ❌      | ✅            |
| Get Notified where you work (Slack, Email, more)             | ❌      | ✅            |
| Data Health Dashboard                                        | ❌      | ✅            |
| Evaluate data contracts on-demand (API)                      | ❌      | ✅            |
| Evaluate data quality checks on-demand (API + UI)            | ❌      | ✅            |

## Data Governance

Features that help you govern the crown jewels of your organization, and trim
out the datasets that seem to grow like weeds when no one's looking.

| Feature                                                                                       | DataHub | DataHub Cloud |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------- |
| Shift-Left governance                                                                         | ✅      | ✅            |
| Dataset ownership management                                                                  | ✅      | ✅            |
| Business glossary basics                                                                      | ✅      | ✅            |
| Customizable data access request and approval workflows                                       | ❌      | ✅ **(beta)** |
| Shift-Left automations (i.e., source system sync back of metadata)                            | ❌      | ✅            |
| Human-assisted Asset Certification Workflows (data owners, stewards)                          | ❌      | ✅            |
| Dynamic Compliance Forms, with rich analytics                                                 | ❌      | ✅            |
| Computational Governance standards as continuous tests                                        | ❌      | ✅            |
| Approval Workflows - Business glossary modifications                                          | ❌      | ✅            |
| Approval Workflows - Adding documentation, glossary terms, tags, owners, and more with assets | ❌      | ✅            |
| AI Data Documentation Generation                                                              | ❌      | ✅            |
| AI Data Classification                                                                        | ❌      | ✅            |
| Access Approval Workflows                                                                     | ❌      | ✅ **(beta)** |

## More Questions?

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 ## Chrome Extension

- [Early Access to the DataHub Chrome Extension](docs/managed-datahub/chrome-extension.md)

## Additional Integrations

- [Slack Integration](docs/managed-datahub/slack/saas-slack-setup.md)
- [Remote Ingestion Executor](docs/managed-datahub/operator-guide/setting-up-remote-ingestion-executor.md)
- [AWS Privatelink](docs/managed-datahub/integrations/aws-privatelink.md)
- [AWS Eventbridge](docs/managed-datahub/operator-guide/setting-up-events-api-on-aws-eventbridge.md)

## Additional SSO/Login Support

- [OIDC SSO Integration in the UI](docs/managed-datahub/integrations/oidc-sso-integration.md)

## Expanded API Features

- [Entity Events API](docs/managed-datahub/datahub-api/entity-events-api.md)

## More Ways to Act on Metadata

- [Approval Workflows](docs/managed-datahub/change-proposals.md)
- [Metadata Tests](docs/tests/metadata-tests.md) -->