Myriade vs Atlan
Atlan is friendlier than Collibra. But your catalog is still empty.
Atlan modernized the data catalog with a better UX and faster deployment. But the fundamental challenge remains: documentation coverage stalls without dedicated effort. Myriade auto-documents 90% and goes beyond catalog to self-service analytics.
Data understanding
Myriade goes far beyond your metadata.
Atlan works from metadata and pre-built configurations. Myriade connects to your warehouse and reverse-engineers a context layer covering every table and column — roughly 90% generated autonomously. The remaining 10% are genuine ambiguities that Myriade surfaces for your team to confirm.
What Atlan sees
Column names
Schema metadata
Query history
Basic descriptions
What Myriade sees
Actual data values and samples
Statistical distributions (min/max, anomalies)
Cross-table relationships and joins
Data quality issues (duplicates, inconsistencies)
Business context inferred from data behavior
Column meaning verified against actual values
A modern UI doesn't solve the adoption problem
Atlan is a well-designed, developer-friendly catalog. Your team loved the demo. But six months later, it's the same story as every catalog: documentation coverage stalls at 20%, business teams ignore it, and your data engineers are still drowning in ad-hoc requests. The problem was never the interface, it's that manual documentation doesn't scale.
Manual effort at the core: Atlan makes documentation easier, but it still relies on humans to write and maintain it. Your team has pipelines to build and fires to fight.
Adoption plateau: initial enthusiasm fades. Coverage stalls because nobody prioritizes documentation work, it's always the last thing on the sprint.
Passive catalog: business teams don't browse catalogs. They want answers, not metadata. Atlan doesn't provide self-service analytics.
No data quality layer: documenting data doesn't mean the data itself is reliable. Duplicates, anomalies, and inconsistencies go undetected.
Feature comparison
Myriade
AI reverse-engineers your data: statistical profiling, sampling, cross-table analysis. 90% auto-generated.
Developer-friendly UI with AI-assisted features. Faster than Collibra/Alation but still fundamentally human-driven for business context.
An AI layer that gets smarter every night
Nightly memory cycle
Every conversation across your org is reviewed nightly. Corrections and clarifications become permanent knowledge for all users.
Org & user instructions
Define business rules that apply to everyone, or context specific to a team. The AI adapts without warehouse changes.
Self-improving context
The platform in month six is meaningfully more accurate than month one. Every interaction deepens the foundation.
Why CDOs choose Myriade over Atlan
Why teams choose Myriade
Documentation that fills itself
Myriade reverse-engineers your data through statistical profiling, sampling, and cross-table analysis to auto-document 90% of your tables. Your team validates instead of writes. Jules documented 150+ tables in under one week, 90% validated automatically.
From catalog to self-service
Business teams don't want a catalog to browse. They want answers. Myriade lets operations directors, product leads, and marketing managers ask questions in natural language and get trustworthy answers. No SQL, no tickets.
Understanding makes quality visible
Myriade combines documentation and quality in one platform. Understanding your data is what makes quality issues visible and fixable, not just detectable.
Testimonials
Trusted by both data and business teams.
“We documented over 150 tables in less than a week with Myriade. 90% of the data was validated automatically.”
Jean-François Jouannais
Head of Data & AI Product
“I appreciate Myriade for its semantic ‘magic’, which understands our tables and handles complex joins.”
Solvita Jancevska
Data Steward
“Myriade helps me daily to optimize my queries, better understand business needs, and find information faster.”
Marius Saka
Lead Data Analytics @ Jules
“I was impressed pretty quickly because I don’t have a data background, and Myriade lets me do things I simply couldn’t do otherwise.”
Allan Lemoine
Head of Logistics @ Jules
“Myriade is the dream tool for anyone who wants to speed up decision-making. You analyze incredibly fast and dig deeper into results through conversation.”
Yohan Talik
Head of Performance @ Jules
“It’s like an automatic gearbox. Once you’ve tried it, you never want to go back.”
Fares Daoud
Tech Lead Data & AI @ Jules
“Myriade sees far ahead. In two months, we had an intelligence engine to analyze our data. It’s a magic wand for business teams.”
Moez Hamad
Chief Data Officer @ Jules
“Myriade helps me daily to optimize my queries, better understand business needs, and find information faster.”
Marius Saka
Lead Data Analytics @ Jules
“I was impressed pretty quickly because I don’t have a data background, and Myriade lets me do things I simply couldn’t do otherwise.”
Allan Lemoine
Head of Logistics @ Jules
“Myriade is the dream tool for anyone who wants to speed up decision-making. You analyze incredibly fast and dig deeper into results through conversation.”
Yohan Talik
Head of Performance @ Jules
“It’s like an automatic gearbox. Once you’ve tried it, you never want to go back.”
Fares Daoud
Tech Lead Data & AI @ Jules
“Myriade sees far ahead. In two months, we had an intelligence engine to analyze our data. It’s a magic wand for business teams.”
Moez Hamad
Chief Data Officer @ Jules
“Conclusive results and great internal adoption. Kudos for the product and what it delivers.”
Pierre-Antoine Roinat
CEO & Co-founder @ Recommerce
“With Myriade I can work 5 to 6 times faster than if I was trying to find things myself.”
Valentin Poulet
Head of Merchant Partnerships @ Ekip
“It’s ChatGPT for our data. Whenever I need information, instead of digging around, I ask Myriade and get my answer in 2 minutes.”
Angèle Miard
Customer Success Manager @ Ekip
“It’s like having a pocket data analyst. It runs incredibly precise analyses, spots bugs, and finds things that would have taken me hours to find on my own.”
Sandrine Eklou
Customer Success Manager @ Ekip
“Conclusive results and great internal adoption. Kudos for the product and what it delivers.”
Pierre-Antoine Roinat
CEO & Co-founder @ Recommerce
“With Myriade I can work 5 to 6 times faster than if I was trying to find things myself.”
Valentin Poulet
Head of Merchant Partnerships @ Ekip
“It’s ChatGPT for our data. Whenever I need information, instead of digging around, I ask Myriade and get my answer in 2 minutes.”
Angèle Miard
Customer Success Manager @ Ekip
“It’s like having a pocket data analyst. It runs incredibly precise analyses, spots bugs, and finds things that would have taken me hours to find on my own.”
Sandrine Eklou
Customer Success Manager @ Ekip
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