DATADISCOVERY FEATURES
Everything DataDiscovery can do, feature by feature.
DataDiscovery gives you what you need to make sense of your unstructured data, from indexing to search, reports, tags, automation, and delivery to AI and BI pipelines. Compare what each plan includes, from Professional to Multistream.
ONE CATALOG
Every feature starts with the same catalog.
Every feature below works from one catalog of your file metadata, so search, reports, tags, and actions always agree. The tables show what each plan includes.
Core features.
The foundation of DataDiscovery, core features deliver global visibility, powerful search, and metadata-driven orchestration over your entire data estate. They’re designed to help teams index faster, find smarter, and act with confidence across billions of files.
Indexing.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Base and distributed indexers | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Scans local and network-attached storage | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Index to a single Elasticsearch shard, no replicas | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Index to unlimited Elasticsearch shards and replicas | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Multiple Elasticsearch clusters | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Optimized directory caching for faster scans | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Advanced Elasticsearch performance settings via Web UI | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Task scheduling and management via Web UI | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Generates change lists for efficient syncing | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Real-time directory view with Live View File Action | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Indices management.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Manually select a single index to perform specific searches/analysis | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Manually select multiple indices to perform specific searches/analysis | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Automated latest-indices selection | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Index diff → compare two index snapshots for additions, deletions, and changes | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Automatic index naming with date/time tokens, directory names, or custom names | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Incremental (append) indexing with overwrite or append control | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Global findability.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Search within a single pane of glass | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Built-in search tools: filters, quick search, search within results | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Advanced search with Elasticsearch query strings | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Metadata search across several indices | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Federated search across multiple Elasticsearch clusters | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Actionable results.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Copy search result paths to clipboard | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Export search results with all metadata to JSON/CSV | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Share search results URL and/or query syntax | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Run user-triggered File Actions | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Manual tagging | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Data intelligence.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Insights dashboard → after every scan, a data efficiency score, value tiers, data temperature, ROT, and a ranked list of top actions | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Search page charts → age, top files, and top directories for any path you search | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Dashboard → a clickable snapshot of all your data, globally or by volume and path | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Storage Space → total, used, and available capacity for every indexed location | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| File Tree → an instant view of directories by size and age | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Treemap → directory sizes shown as nested blocks | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Tags → every tagged dataset by name, size, and file count | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| User Analysis → how much data each user and group owns, and what it costs | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Smart Searches → saved searches shared across your organization | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Cost Analysis → a customizable report that puts a price on your data | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Reports → customizable reports that surface your biggest unknowns | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Directory Explorer → file size, age, and activity across your directories, at a glance | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Heatmap → compares two scans to show where data grew or shrank | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| BI tools → use standard Elasticsearch indexes as a data source in Kibana, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, and more | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Grafana plugin → charts and trends of your storage metrics over time | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Tags.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Manual tagging | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Automated tagging via AutoTag → auto-apply tags based on multi-attribute rules | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Core metadata enrichment.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Breadcrumb file lineage | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| CNTag (ClarityNow) | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Cost | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| CSV enrichment | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Dell PowerScale SmartPools | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Dell Quota | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Dell Unity | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| File kind | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| First index/arrival time | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Grafana & Grafana Cloud | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Hash values/checksums | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Microsoft Azure Blob | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Offline media | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Path tokens | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| PDF Info | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| S3 and S3 compatible object storage | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Spectra Logic RioBroker/BlackPearl | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Unix permissions | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Windows owner | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Windows filesystem attributes | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Core file actions.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Download | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| DataDelivery data mobility | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Dell Metadata | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Dell SmartSync | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Export | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Fix Unix permissions | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Live View | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Make links | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| PDF viewer | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Rclone | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Spectra | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Upload | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Data integrity.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Dupes finder → identifies duplicate files using hash values | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Hash differential checksums → alerts on checksum inconsistencies | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Illegal and long file name reporting, tagging, and optional remediation | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Data curation and workflow automation.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Workflow automation for data lifecycle management, tiering, and more (delete, copy, move, rename, and custom tasks) | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Data mobility.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| DataDelivery data mobility | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
| Dell SmartSync | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
| Rclone | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Curated datasets for AI/BI pipelines.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Feed curated datasets to AI/BI pipelines | 🔵 |
Super-connector to data lakes and lakehouses.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Super-connector to data lakes and lakehouses | 🔵 | ||
| Parquet Alternate Ingester → export your index as Parquet for data lakes and warehouses | 🔵 | ||
| Snowflake integration → stream your index into Snowflake via Kafka | 🔵 |
Authentication.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Native DataDiscovery login | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| LDAP login | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| OAuth2 OKTA | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| OAuth2 Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Extensibility.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Build your own: custom scanners, metadata enrichment plugins (index-time/post-index), and File Actions | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| REST API (40+ endpoints) | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Support.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| Access to multiple online resources | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Software updates/upgrades | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Dedicated remote support via Zendesk | Mon-Fri 8am-5pm PST | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Phone support | Mon-Fri 8am-5pm PST | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Remote user training | PAID OPTION | PAID OPTION | PAID OPTION |
| Professional services | PAID OPTION | PAID OPTION | PAID OPTION |
| Development services | PAID OPTION | PAID OPTION | PAID OPTION |
Add-ons.
AI connector.
Go beyond automation. The AI connector lets you talk to your data in plain language: ask questions, surface insights, tag files, and get recommended next steps for cleanup, governance, and cost optimization, with you in control.
| FEATURE | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
| AI connector | PAID OPTION | PAID OPTION | PAID OPTION |
Industry-specific features.
Every industry has unique data challenges, and DataDiscovery meets them head-on. From genomics to film production, semiconductor design to energy exploration, these specialized features enrich metadata, automate curation, and align data lifecycles with how your business actually works.
| FEATURE | MEDIA | LIFE SCIENCE | EDA | ENERGY |
| AVID metadata enrichment | 🔵 | |||
| CineViewer Player file action | 🔵 | |||
| Find file sequences file action | 🔵 | |||
| Image Info metadata enrichment | 🔵 | |||
| Media Info metadata enrichment | 🔵 | |||
| OpenEXR Info metadata enrichment | 🔵 | |||
| ShotGrid/Autodesk Flow Production Tracking metadata enrichment | 🔵 | |||
| Telestream GLIM file action | 🔵 | |||
| Telestream Vantage file action | 🔵 | |||
| Xytech asset creation metadata enrichment | 🔵 | |||
| Xytech order status metadata enrichment | 🔵 | |||
| BAM (Binary Alignment Map) and SAM (Sequence Alignment Map) metadata enrichment | 🔵 | |||
| Curated datasets extraction for industry-specific analysis and workflow automation | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
FAQ
Questions about features.
Every plan includes unlimited users and the core features on this page. Plans are sized by the number of files you index, and the higher plans add scale and advanced options. The tables above show what each plan includes, and the plans page compares them side by side.
No. DataDiscovery reads file metadata, such as names, sizes, dates, and owners, and builds its catalog from it. Your files stay where they are. A file action runs only when a person or a policy you set up starts it. See the architecture for how it connects to your storage.
File and object storage, on premises and in the cloud, including NFS and SMB shares and object storage. Every system lands in the same index, so you search across all your storage from one place.
You can tag files and folders by hand, or let Auto Tag rules add tags after each scan. Tags then drive searches, reports, and file actions, for example to mark data for archive or cleanup. Learn more about tags and the metadata catalog.
Yes. Cost Analysis puts a price on your data, and User Analysis shows how much each user and group owns and what it costs. The Insights dashboard also shows where the waste is, such as ROT data. See data intelligence for the full set of reports.
The AI Connector is an optional add-on. You ask questions about your storage in plain English, and it answers from the catalog. It can tag data and recommend actions, and every action it proposes waits for a person to approve it. Learn more about the AI Connector.
Yes. Plugins add metadata from file contents and other systems, and run actions on the files you select, such as moving or copying them. Browse the DataDiscovery plugins.
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what’s recoverable against your current storage spend.