2023.3 OCF Connectors

The tables below provide information on databases, BI tools, and file systems supported with OCF connectors. Click the connector name to go to the corresponding documentation page. For some of the connectors, where the link is not currently available, documentation will be added soon.

RDBMS Connectors

* Lineage is calculated based on queries ingested from Compose.

** Lineage is calculated using direct lineage extraction.

*** Extraction of view SQL during MDE is not supported. Lineage information is generated from DDL queries ingested during QLI and DDL queries run in Compose.

BI Connectors

Connectors

Supported Version

Metadata Extraction

Lineage

Column Level Lineage

Access Rules

SSL

Looker

Cloud - latest, On-prem - 22.x, 23.x

MicroStrategy

Cloud - 2021 On-prem - 11.3.10

Power BI on Azure

latest

Power BI Scanner on Azure

Power BI Pro and Premium versions

*

Qlik Sense

Feb 2022 and earlier versions

SAP BO

4.2

SSRS (Without Sharepoint)

2016, 2017, 2019

Tableau

(Tableau Server and Tableau Online)

Server: 2021.3, 2021.4, 2022.1, 2022.3, 2023.1

Online - latest

* Lineage for Dataflows is supported for Alation versions 2023.3.3 or higher.

File System Connectors

Connectors

Supported Version

Metadata Extraction

Schema Extraction

Sampling

Authentication Methods

Amazon S3

latest

*

**

Basic, STS

Azure Blob Storage

latest

Basic, SAS

HDFS

CDH - 6.2, 6.3 CDP - 7.1.3, 7.1.7

Basic, SSL, Kerberos

* Schema extraction is supported only for CSV and Parquet files

** File sampling is supported only for CSV and Parquet files

SSO with Compose

Database Type

Azure AD

AD FS

OKTA

PingFederate

One Login

Auth0

Snowflake IdP

Amazon Redshift

n/a

Databricks on AWS

n/a

Azure Databricks

n/a

Azure Synapse Analysis

n/a

Azure SQL (SQL DB)

n/a

Databricks Unity Catalog (Azure)

n/a

Snowflake

What is Different Compared to 2023.1?

This table contains the changes compared to the previous release.

Change

Description

Databricks on GCP

Added support for version 12.x

Looker

Added support for version 23.x

Databricks Unity Catalog

Added support for version 12.x

Databricks on AWS

Added support for version 12.x

Databricks on Azure

Added support for version 11.x and 12.x

Databricks Azure on Government Cloud

Added support for version 11.x and 12.x

Hive 3 on CDP

Added support for Azure HDInsight version 5.0

Feature support

Added QLI support for Databricks Unity Catalog

Feature support

Added Lineage support for SAP BW and SAP ECC

Change Log

This table contains corrections and updates made between major releases.

Date

Change

29/09/23

Added new version support for GCP Databricks and Tableau

06/11/23

Added MicroStrategy (BI) and HDFS (File System) connectors

08/01/23

  • Added Imapala on CDP connector

  • Added new version support for Starburst Enterprise (Trino)