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Quick time to Analysis. Responsive Team.
What do you like best about the product?
For us, it was the integration with the tools that we have in our data platform. They had native integrations so it was super quick to integrate and start using Select Star. They are also super responsive in the Slack Channel and quick to resolve issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still some features that may not be there compared to some of the bigger rival products, but they are pushing out new features at an awesome clip and I think they will begin to start closing that gap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Select Star gives us a central platform to answer questions about the data in our platform. It is super easy for new users to quickly understand the lineage of data.
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Select Star helps us save a ton of time on a daily basis! Column level lineage is invaluable!
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful feature for my team has been the column-level lineage that gives us end-to-end visibility into our pipeline all the way from source to dashboards.
What used to take us 20-30min to do, hopping between different apps, now takes less than 1min and we can do it all within just the Select star UI. This saves a ton of time and prevents a lot of mistakes!
What used to take us 20-30min to do, hopping between different apps, now takes less than 1min and we can do it all within just the Select star UI. This saves a ton of time and prevents a lot of mistakes!
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing to dislike about Select star! However, I wish there would be some more features around data quality and possibly a home page that lists all newly added tables (for the top 50 maybe) after the last sync with the DW
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For us, Select Star is solving many different problems:
- centralized data catalog, accessible to users outside of the Data team
- end-to-end column-level lineage
- helps us establish data owners for different data sets
- helps us track data freshness
- allows for more transparency of the SQL code that powers our data models
- centralized data catalog, accessible to users outside of the Data team
- end-to-end column-level lineage
- helps us establish data owners for different data sets
- helps us track data freshness
- allows for more transparency of the SQL code that powers our data models
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The Select Star team is super helpful, so don't hesitate to ask them your most difficult questions!
functionality is there but UX needs improvement
What do you like best about the product?
Search bar is highly functional, it is well segregated by data source. Placement of assets is well thought out and relationships made between different assets is easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI/UX still needs a big facelift. There's no data dictionary functionality which is one of our biggest needs. We have to workaround by using their document type page which is pretty much a notion page or Google doc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Select Star helps us achieve a centralized source of truth for all data assets. We're still in the testing phases but we hope that the organization turns to select star whenever there's a question on terms, KPIs, metrics, or data.
Best Lineage Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Select Star is a convenient and fast lineage tool available for BigQuery + Looker environment.
It helps our company to see all the dependencies of tables and dashboards.
It helps our company to see all the dependencies of tables and dashboards.
What do you dislike about the product?
We are missing some features, like customizable categories (labels). However, we are constantly in contact with Select Star team and we probably will see the features we need in future updates :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it solves the problem of checking tables and dashboards' dependencies, so it makes the table removal process easier.
We also send new team members to select star, instead of spending time explaining what the sources of certain tables are.
We also send new team members to select star, instead of spending time explaining what the sources of certain tables are.
Agile in how to onboard the team, regardless of how mature the teams are.
What do you like best about the product?
Support & Service and Column Level Lineage
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the application is slow, but that is probably our fault because we have very bad design & too many tables.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Source of truth, documenting baseline information and showing how our data is connected, helping us resolve issues faster.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This tool quickly allows you to understand where your data is located and get your arms around how to make it an asset for the company.
Does a better job than what Fortune 500 companies can build
What do you like best about the product?
- Being able to see column popularity and popular joins and queries
- Great customer service
- Seeing all tables in a schema easily
- Great customer service
- Seeing all tables in a schema easily
What do you dislike about the product?
- Slightly slow search and load times
- No comprehensive way to add valid values, except to the field description itself
- Still a relatively new product, so new features are being added
- No comprehensive way to add valid values, except to the field description itself
- Still a relatively new product, so new features are being added
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data table, schema, and data field documentation. Knowing who to contact about tables.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider the number of tables, views, and users you'll need to support, and check this against Select Star's pricing plans.
Great tool for discovering data. Easy to document and find table/column definition.
What do you like best about the product?
UI is super intuitive - easy to search for tables or columns and find the data you need. Can also find commonly used queries and how to join tables together.
What do you dislike about the product?
New schema does not always pop up automatically - sometimes have to ping the support team to add it manually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Select Star solves the data discoverability issue, which could be a big issue especially when the team grows and the amount of tribal knowledge grows.
Easy to edit, easy to search, a bit slow to navigate.
What do you like best about the product?
Pros:
- Easy to search: can search by both table and column names. Can view how popular a given column is by popularity. Can see how different tables and variables are connected.
- Easy to edit: users can doubleclick into table and column descriptions to update descriptions
- Easy to search: can search by both table and column names. Can view how popular a given column is by popularity. Can see how different tables and variables are connected.
- Easy to edit: users can doubleclick into table and column descriptions to update descriptions
What do you dislike about the product?
Cons:
- Slow to load and to navigate: when searching for tables and columns, the recommendations take a while to populate. Uncertain if this is due to issues with the backend on our side or with Selectstar.
- Slow to load and to navigate: when searching for tables and columns, the recommendations take a while to populate. Uncertain if this is due to issues with the backend on our side or with Selectstar.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Selectstar allows users of our data warehouse to record what would otherwise be tribal knowledge and trivializes the sharing of information.
Nearly all the data discovery needs met
What do you like best about the product?
- each table's info and column description can be edited without having to update a yaml
- better search for Mode than Mode itself
- lineage for individual tables and columns used in queries, it's very helpful to find common ways to use the data
- easy system to claim tables, add details, tags, etc. doesn't feel bureaucratic by design.
- friendly support for issues and has a mechanism to upvote product suggestions
- better search for Mode than Mode itself
- lineage for individual tables and columns used in queries, it's very helpful to find common ways to use the data
- easy system to claim tables, add details, tags, etc. doesn't feel bureaucratic by design.
- friendly support for issues and has a mechanism to upvote product suggestions
What do you dislike about the product?
- right clicking columns leads you to lineage page when you just want to copy to clipboard
- URL pattern uses table IDs instead of db names, table names, and column names. If a colleague shares a link with you, you will not know what it's for, and you cannot just alter a URL to get to the right subpage
- lack of sample data for each table, leading to needing to query it to preview data or find an existing example query
- URL pattern uses table IDs instead of db names, table names, and column names. If a colleague shares a link with you, you will not know what it's for, and you cannot just alter a URL to get to the right subpage
- lack of sample data for each table, leading to needing to query it to preview data or find an existing example query
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Human-friendly data table discovery --> Can find the right Snowflake tables in a more readable format + has so much more context per column
- Human-friendly Mode report discovery --> Can find more relevant reports faster than native Mode search + has so much more context per report
- Knowing which column to use based on Popularity indicator --- many tables have columns that sound similar but are not the same. Popularity is a quick way to validate which one is 'correct' for the most typical use cases.
- Common joins, column/table lineage, query discovery --> Can better construct queries by seeing examples by the rest of the company and ideate a little faster for the next project by having examples, and know which dashboards/queries a table update will impact
- Human-friendly Mode report discovery --> Can find more relevant reports faster than native Mode search + has so much more context per report
- Knowing which column to use based on Popularity indicator --- many tables have columns that sound similar but are not the same. Popularity is a quick way to validate which one is 'correct' for the most typical use cases.
- Common joins, column/table lineage, query discovery --> Can better construct queries by seeing examples by the rest of the company and ideate a little faster for the next project by having examples, and know which dashboards/queries a table update will impact
Frequent user of select star
What do you like best about the product?
crowd sourced information on data fields when looking at new data tables, able to see which tables/data fields are most popular
What do you dislike about the product?
not able to see audit trail of descriptions (eg can't see when last updated / who updated to ensure if the description is up to date or correct)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
data exploration, maintain SOT info of data tables, enable people who are unfamiliar with data tables to quickly ramp up
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