What are the differences between Data Lineage and Data Provenance?

From our experience, data provenance includes only high level view of the system for business users, so they can roughly navigate where their data come from. It’s provided by variety of modeling tools or just simple custom tables and charts. Data lineage is a more specific term and includes two sides – business (data) lineage and technical (data) lineage. Business lineage pictures data flows on a business-term level and it’s provided by solutions like Collibra, Alation and many others. Technical data lineage is created from actual technical metadata and tracks data flows on the lowest level – actual tables, scripts and statements. Technical data lineage is being provided by solutions such as MANTA or Informatica Metadata Manager.

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