2024.3 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, 24.10

***

MicroStrategy

Cloud - latest On-prem - 11.3.10, 11.4.06

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, 4.3

SSRS (Without Sharepoint)

2016, 2017, 2019

**

Tableau

(Tableau Server and Tableau Online)

Server: 2021.3, 2021.4, 2022.1, 2022.3, 2023.1, 2024.2.4

Online - latest

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

** Column-level lineage is supported only for SQL Server when the field names are same for RDBMS table columns, dataset fields and report fields.

*** Report Lineage and Column-level Lineage are supported for the following data sources: MySQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Databricks and Google BigQuery. However, Column-level lineage is supported for Databricks and Google BigQuery only when the database column and explore field name are same.

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

ELT Connectors

SSO with Compose

Database Type

Azure AD

AD FS

OKTA

PingFederate

One Login

Auth0

Snowflake IdP

Databricks IdP

Amazon Redshift

n/a

n/a

Databricks on AWS

n/a

Azure Databricks

n/a

n/a

Azure Synapse Analysis

n/a

n/a

Azure SQL (SQL DB)

n/a

n/a

Databricks Unity Catalog (Azure)

n/a

Databricks Unity Catalog (AWS)

n/a

n/a

Snowflake

n/a

What is Different Compared to 2024.1?

This table contains the changes compared to the previous release.

Change

Description

Looker

Added support for version 24.1.0

Change Log

This table contains corrections and updates made between major releases.

Date

Change

12/09/24

Added Informatica CDI OCF connector

04/10/24

Added CLL support for SSRS OCF connector

17/10/24

Added CLL support for Looker OCF Connector

24/10/24

Added Workday OCF Connector

12/11/24

Added Fivetran OCF Connector

12/11/24

Added new version support for Tabelau