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Select Star: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Select Star is a metadata and data catalogue platform. It connects to data warehouses and BI tools to read metadata, query history and activity logs, and builds automated documentation, column-level lineage, entity-relationship diagrams, a business glossary and data access controls. It also offers an MCP server that gives AI agents access to metadata, lineage and semantic models. According to its documentation, it works from metadata rather than data values unless features such as data previews are enabled. It is delivered as software as a service.

Select Star Inc. is a US company. Snowflake, also a US company, announced in November 2025 that it planned to acquire Select Star, and the Select Star website now states that it is part of Snowflake. According to the master subscription agreement, the service runs on Amazon Web Services; no region or EU data residency option is documented. Select Star reports annual SOC 2 audits, but its public pages contain no GDPR statement or data processing agreement. European organisations should ask for these terms and weigh US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Data Governance & MDM
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Select Star

The European alternatives to Select Star come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Select Star

Select Star is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Select Star hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Select Star is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Select Star together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Select Star?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Select Star include Accutics, BiG EVAL and CluedIn. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Select Star?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Select Star include Data Contract CLI. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Select Star GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Select Star is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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