Redgate Test Data Manager (2025)

Redgate Test Data Manager is the company’s latest test data management offering, released as recently as November 2023. It builds on the success of Redgate’s other test data products to provide a solution for test data management and provisioning that is more comprehensive, more compatible, and easier to use than anything the company has been able to offer before, at least within the confines of a single product.

The aim of Redgate Test Data Manager is to provide a complete and reliable, but at the same time centralised and straightforward, test data creation and provisioning experience that can happily sit within your existing DevOps pipeline. To this end, it offers automated sensitive data discovery, data masking, data subsetting, database cloning/virtualisation, and more. These capabilities are accessible via both graphical and command line interfaces, providing a simplified user experience with the former and more advanced functionality, plus integration with existing pipelines (including CI/CD pipelines) and workflows, with the latter. APIs are also available to further enable said integration. It can support containerised workflows, and itself leverages Kubernetes under the hood. Redgate Test Data Manager is available in two versions: the standard tier consists only of its data discovery, masking, and subsetting functionality, while its enterprise tier offers everything mentioned above. While the latter’s appeal is obvious, the former is designed as a simple and straightforward test data management experience that is particularly well-suited as a starting point for engaging with the space. In either case, the product is compatible with SQLServer, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Other Redgate products, such as Data Masker and SQL Data Catalog, can also be deployed alongside Redgate Test Data Manager, albeit with a more restricted set of supported databases in most cases.

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