MaxCompute Connector Release Notes¶

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Enhanced Connector Enhanced connectors add extended capabilities and require a separate entitlement in addition to your Alation platform license.

April 9, 2026¶

The MaxCompute Enhanced Connector is now available for download. Use this connector to catalog Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute data warehouses in Alation.

The connector is compatible with Alation version 2024.3 and higher.

Authentication: Supports Alibaba Cloud Access Key authentication.
Metadata Extraction: Extracts projects, tables, views, columns, and user-defined functions from MaxCompute using MaxCompute OpenAPI.
Lineage Extraction: Extracts table-level and column-level lineage from DataWorks Public API. Includes script details such as Task, Status, Trigger, Owner, Schedule, and SQL content.
Query Log Ingestion (QLI): Extracts query history from MaxCompute to power Popularity, Top Users, Filter Information, and Join Information features. Requires the infoschema_admin role at the MaxCompute tenant level.
Data Profiling: Supports table and column profiling via JDBC connections. Includes Value Distribution for all column types, and Min, Max, Mean metrics for numerical columns. Requires the enable_profiling_v2 feature flag (enabled by default for ACS).
Compose Integration: Supports query execution through Alation Compose.
Performance Settings: Configurable parallel processing and API rate limiting for optimized extraction.
Table Filtering: Filter tables by name or regex pattern for selective extraction.
Logging Configuration: Configurable log levels for troubleshooting.