Data lineage provides a detailed record of data’s origin, transformations, and movement across systems, enabling compliance checks, impact analysis, and ensuring data integrity.

Data lineage only documents where data is stored in a data lake or warehouse, without tracking transformations or usage.

Data lineage focuses solely on tracking schema changes in source systems and does not include downstream transformations or reporting.

Data lineage is primarily used for optimizing query performance and is not relevant to compliance or governance.