Overview¶
Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation
Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation
The OCF Connector for Oracle was developed by Alation and is available as a Zip file which can be uploaded and installed in Manage Connectors. To download the Oracle OCF connector package, go to the Alation Connector Hub available from the Customer Portal. Go to Customer Portal > Connectors > Alation Connector Hub. Only Alation users with access to the Customer Portal can access the Alation Connector Hub. If you don’t have access to the Customer Portal, contact Alation Support.
This connector should be used to catalog the Oracle database as a data source in Alation. The connector catalogs Oracle objects, such as schemas, tables, columns, synonyms, views, primary keys, foreign keys, indices, procedures, and functions. It enables users to search and find Oracle objects from the Alation user interface.
Team¶
The following administrators are required to install this connector:
Alation administrator:
Installs Alation Connector Manager or ensures that it has been installed.
Installs the connector.
Creates and configures an Oracle data source in the catalog.
Oracle Administrator:
Creates a service account and grants it the required privileges to access the metadata.
Provides the JDBC URI to access the Oracle database.
Assists in configuring authentication.
Scope¶
The table below shows what features are covered by the connector. For version support information, refer to Support Matrix.
Oracle (EC2) |
Oracle (RDS) |
Oracle (E-Business Suite) |
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Core Capabilities |
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Automated metadata extraction (MDE) |
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Query-based MDE |
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Search |
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Catalog page curation |
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Catalog sets |
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Propagation of data quality flags |
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Popularity |
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Compose |
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On-prem Alation instances |
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Alation Cloud Service instances* |
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* Compose for data sources connected via Alation Agent is supported from connector version 1.2.11.2455. |
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Query Log Ingestion (QLI) |
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Table-based |
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Query-based |
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Filters |
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Lineage |
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Sampling and Profiling |
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Table sampling |
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Custom query-based table sampling |
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Custom query-based column profiling |
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Dynamic profiling |
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Authentication |
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Basic (username and password) |
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Kerberos |
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Keytab |
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LDAP |
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Technical Metadata |
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Tables |
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Columns |
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Primary keys |
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Foreign keys |
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Views |
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Schemas |
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Source comments* |
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Synonyms |
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* Source comments are not supported for materialized view. |
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