Select Star

A recognized innovator in automated data discovery and lineage, acquired by Snowflake to bolster its native Horizon Catalog capabilities.

Select Star is an automated data discovery and intelligence platform that enables organizations to understand, explore, and govern their data assets. The platform automatically maps data lineage, tracks usage patterns, and surfaces relationships across an organization's entire data stack — connecting data warehouses, BI tools, ETL pipelines, and other data infrastructure into a unified, searchable catalog. By providing contextual intelligence around data assets, Select Star helps data teams quickly find trusted data, understand its origins, and assess its downstream impact. Founded to address the growing complexity of modern data environments, Select Star built a reputation for deep integrations with leading data platforms including Snowflake, BigQuery, dbt, Looker, Tableau, and others. Its automated approach to metadata collection and lineage tracking reduced the manual overhead traditionally associated with data cataloging, making it accessible to data teams of varying sizes. The platform's emphasis on column-level lineage and usage-based trust signals distinguished it from more manual catalog solutions. Snowflake announced its acquisition of Select Star to enhance its Horizon Catalog offering, integrating Select Star's data discovery and lineage capabilities directly into the Snowflake Data Cloud. The acquisition reflects Snowflake's broader strategy to provide richer data governance and context natively within its platform. Select Star's technology and team are being folded into Snowflake's ecosystem, strengthening Snowflake's ability to deliver end-to-end data intelligence to its customers.