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Data catalogs and governance · November 2026 Edition

Microsoft Purview vs Select Star

Zero of fourteen models named Microsoft Purview first on the direct prompt; zero named Select Star. Microsoft Purview was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Select Star by eight and Microsoft Purview carries 42 labels and Select Star 12, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Microsoft Purview

accepted challenger

Named in eleven categories this edition.

Select Star

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share3%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate14%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#8A position in a field of 16; printed, not drawn.
Labels4212A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Microsoft Purview reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Atlan was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. Atlan vs Microsoft Purview · Atlan vs Select Star · OpenMetadata vs Microsoft Purview

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the data catalogs and governance page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Microsoft PurviewFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSelect Star
Direct001 against Microsoft Purview
Paraphrase20
Comparative00
Budget-constrained00
Scale-constrained01
Negative005 against Microsoft Purview
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Microsoft Purview and Select Star stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Microsoft Purview Select Star first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Microsoft Purview on the left and Select Star on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Microsoft Purview and Select Star stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniAtlan alternatives: Alation, DataHub, Dataplex, Microsoft Purview, OpenMetadata, Unity Catalog
Gemini 3.5 FlashAtlan alternatives: AWS Glue Data Catalog, Acryl Data, CastorDoc, Databricks Unity Catalog, OpenMetadata, Secoda, Select Star, Snowflake Horizon
Perplexity SonarAtlan alternatives: Collibra, Microsoft Purview, OvalEdge, Secoda
Grok 4.20Atlan alternatives: DataHub, OpenMetadata, Secoda, Select Star
DeepSeek V4 FlashOvalEdge, Secoda alternatives: Atlan, DataHub, Select Star
Qwen 3.7 FlashAtlan, Secoda alternatives: Coalesce Catalog, Microsoft Purview
Kimi K2CastorDoc, Secoda alternatives: Atlan, Select Star

Neither was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
Mistral SmallAtlan, Secoda
Llama 4 MaverickSecoda alternatives: Atlan, data.world
GLM 4.7 FlashXAtlan alternatives: DataGalaxy, Dawiso, OpenMetadata, Zeenea
MiniMax M2.5Secoda alternatives: Atlan
GPT-6 LunaAtlan alternatives: OpenMetadata, Secoda, Your platform's built-in catalog
Muse Glimmer 30BSecoda alternatives: Dataedo, OvalEdge, data.world

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Select Star leads by nine points.
Select Star16%#3 of 16
Microsoft Purview6%#6 of 16
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Microsoft Purview leads at mid-market.
Microsoft Purview3%#5 of 16
Select Star2%#8 of 16
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Microsoft Purview leads by four points.
Microsoft Purview4%#6 of 11
Select Star0%#– of 11
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Microsoft Purview

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.

“Microsoft Purview (in non-Microsoft environments)” Mistral Small · negative prompt · hard negative
“If you are Microsoft 365 / Azure / Fabric first and want governance + security + compliance with minimal overhead: Microsoft Purview Suite for Business Premium.” Muse Glimmer 30B · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about Select Star

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.

“Strongest fit for ~500 employees): *Examples:* Atlan, Select Star, Secoda, CastorDoc, DataHub” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“Best for Lean Teams & Quick Time-to-Value: Select Star, Secoda, or CastorDoc” Gemini 3.5 Flash · direct prompt · alternative
“Modern, lightweight SaaS catalogs (e.g., Atlan, Select Star, CastorDoc, Secoda)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · alternative
Also compared
Atlan vs Microsoft PurviewAtlan vs Select StarOpenMetadata vs Microsoft PurviewOpenMetadata vs Select StarSecoda vs Microsoft PurviewSecoda vs Select StarDataHub vs Microsoft PurviewDataHub vs Select StarMicrosoft Purview vs OvalEdgeMicrosoft Purview vs AlationOvalEdge vs Select StarAlation vs Select StarAll twenty-eight head-to-head pages and the full data catalogs standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.