Configure Compose

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Overview

Compose is supported from connector version 1.0.2.3423, compatible with Alation version 2022.4 or newer.

For details about configuring the Compose tab of the Settings, refer to Configure Compose for OCF Data Sources.

To establish a connection between Compose and Unity Catalog using basic authentication, Compose users will need their own personal access token or the knowledge of the token of the service account.

Note

To establish a connection, when prompted, use token as the username and your personal access token as the password.

If you want to configure OAuth authentication for Compose, additionally see Azure Databricks OAuth for User Connections.

Incremental MDE from Compose

When users create tables and views in Compose, Alation triggers a background extraction job to make the new table and view objects available in the catalog. As a result, users will see the corresponding table or view metadata in the data catalog without re-running MDE on the Settings page of the data source. When users run DDL SQL queries in Compose, incremental MDE also adds lineage information to the affected objects under the data source.