Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: AWS Lake Formation
AWS Lake Formation clearly comes out ahead of AWS Glue Data Catalog on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Both offer a free tier. AWS Glue Data Catalog's paid plans start at $1/mo.
| Overview |  AWS Lake FormationAWS service to centrally govern, secure, and share data for analytics. | AWS Glue Data CatalogCentralized metadata repository for AWS data assets. |
|---|---|---|
| Type | saas tool | saas tool |
| Company | Amazon Web Services | Amazon Web Services |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| Industries | Data & AnalyticsDevelopmentEducation & EdTechLegal & ComplianceCybersecurity & InfoSecAI & Machine Learning | Data & AnalyticsDevelopment |
| Categories | data-engineering | business-intelligence |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
AWS Lake Formation
freemium
usage based
| Feature | aws-lake-formation | aws-glue-data-catalog |
|---|---|---|
| Api Calls For Metadata | ||
| First Million Accesses | ||
| Cell Level Permissions | ||
| First Million Objects Stored | ||
| Column Level Permissions | ||
| Storage Of Metadata Objects Beyond The First Million | ||
| Cross-Account Sharing | ||
| Data Filtering | ||
| Data Scanning | ||
| Database Level Permissions | ||
| Metadata Tracking | ||
| Name-Based Access Controls | ||
| Partition Pruning | ||
| Predicate Pushdown | ||
| Row Level Permissions | ||
| Storage Optimizer | ||
| Table Level Permissions | ||
| Tag-Based Access Controls |
Showing 18 of 18 features
Dashes mean the feature isn't listed in our data. The tool may still support it.
On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, AWS Lake Formation comes out ahead overall, though AWS Glue Data Catalog can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Both AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue Data Catalog offer a free tier.
AWS Lake Formation scores higher on pricing value in Staquest's analysis. It is the highest-weighted dimension in this comparison.
