Netflix/metacat
None observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 99
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 7.0
- age_days: 3819
- days_rel: 7
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 41
Adoption not part of the score
1690 stars · 286 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Metacat is a unified metadata exploration API service from Netflix that federates metadata across data stores like Hive, RDS, Teradata, Redshift, S3, and Cassandra. It exposes a REST API for metadata discovery and allows storing arbitrary user metadata about datasets.
Use cases
- federate metadata from hive, redshift, s3 and cassandra into one api
- build a data catalog for discovering datasets across warehouses
- query what data exists and where it resides
- attach custom business metadata to tables and datasets
- unify hive metastore metadata with other stores behind one rest service
When to choose
- you need a federated metadata layer over multiple big data stores
- you want a self-hosted data catalog with a REST API
- you run a heterogeneous data platform and need unified dataset discovery
When to avoid
- you need a full-featured modern data catalog with lineage and governance UIs
- you only use a single data store with its own metastore
- you want a managed SaaS catalog solution
Facets
service · maturity maintenance
api-framework search-engine database big-data databases analytics developer-tools jvm self-hosted metadata-catalog data-discovery federated-metadata hive-metastore rest-api netflix-oss metadata data-engineering docker web-server
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/Netflix/metacat · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2766b7ec7d76
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Netflix/metacat | main | 99 |
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