Version 2021.4

Refer to the tables below for information on supported database, file system, and BI tool types and versions.

Important

Alation has certified support for versions in this Matrix with release 2021.4. If your Alation instance uses a different release, please refer to the Support Matrix corresponding to this release.

Supported Database (DB) Types

The database types in this table can be added using native (built-in) drivers.

Note that Query Log Ingestion (QLI) is not currently supported for data sources deployed on AWS RDS.

Database Type

Version Supported

Metadata Extraction

Compose

Sampling

QLI*

Popularity

Lineage

Driver Version

Cassandra

2.1

alation.jdbc.cassandra.CassandraDriver.com.alation.drivers.cassandra.0.1

DB2 (LUW)

10.5, 11.1, 11.5

com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver 10.5

Greenplum

4, 5, 6

PostgreSQL 42.3.3

MongoDB

3.6, 4.0, 4.4

mongo-java-driver 3.8.0

MySQL (EC2)

5.7, 8.0

version 8.0.26

Oracle

12c, 19c

19.1

Oracle E-Business Suite

12.2.5

19.1

PostgreSQL (enterprise)

9.6, 10, 11, 12, 13

PostgreSQL 42.3.3

PostgreSQL (open source)

9.6, 10, 11.4, 11.5, 12, 13

PostgreSQL 42.3.3

Presto on Hive

0.238.3

com.facebook.presto.jdbc.PrestoDriver.presto.jdbc.0.227

Salesforce DB

Summer 2021

N/A

SAP HANA

2.0

version 2.4.70.

SAS Base (data files in SAS server)

9.4

***

***

com.sas.rio.MVADriver 904300

SingleStore ( Former MemSQL)

7

***

***

MySQL 8.0 driver

Snowflake

(AWS, Azure, GCP)

latest available at release date

net.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeDriver version 3.13.6

SQL Server

2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019

**

com.microsoft.sqlserver Version 9.4.0.jre11 jtds 7.4.1 (supports NTLM)

Sybase ASE

Adaptive Server Enterprise 16.0

com.alation.drivers.sybase.FixedSybaseDriver.com.alation.drivers.sybase.4

Sybase IQ

16

com.alation.drivers.sybase.FixedSybaseDriver.com.alation.drivers.sybase.4

Teradata

15.10, 16.10, 16.20, 17.0

version 17.00.00.03

Teradata Aster

4.6

com.asterdata.ncluster.Driver.teraaster.5.0.3

Vertica

7.2.3

version 7.2.1

SOURCES ON AWS RDS

MySQL

5.7. 8.0

***

***

version 8.0.26

Oracle

12c, 12.2c, 19c

***

***

19.1

PostgreSQL (open source)

10.0, 11.4, 11.5, 12, 13

***

***

PostgreSQL 42.3.3

SQL Server

2012, 2014, 2016, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019

**

***

***

com.microsoft.sqlserver Version 9.4.0.jre11 jtds 7.4.1

AMAZON SOURCES

AWS Databricks

8.3, 8.4

SimbaSparkJDBC-2.6.16-1020

AWS Glue

latest available at release date

API

Amazon Redshift

latest available at release date

com.alation.drivers.redshift.FixedRedshiftDriver version 1.2.43.1067

Amazon Redshift Spectrum

latest available at release date

com.alation.drivers.redshift.FixedRedshiftDriver version 1.2.43.1067

GOOGLE SOURCES

Google BigQuery

latest available at release date

Simba driver for Google BigQuery version 1.2.19.1023

HADOOP SOURCES

Hive on HDP

HDP 2.4, 2.5.3, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Hive on CDH

CDH 6.2, 6.3

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Hive on EMR (QLI over FS)

EMR 5.0 to 5.29

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Hive on EMR (QLI over Amazon S3)

EMR 5.0 to 5.29

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Hive on EMR with MapReduce

EMR 5.0 to 5.29

***

***

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Hive on EMR with Tez

EMR 5.0 to 5.29

***

***

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Hive with AWS Glue as Metastore

latest available at release date

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Hive on HDP with Tez

HDP 2.4, 2.5.3, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Hive 3 on HDP with Tez

HDP 3.0, 3.1.x

***

***

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Hive 3 on EMR with Tez

EMR 6.0

***

***

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Hive 3 on CDP with Tez

CDP 7.1

***

***

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Impala

CDH 5.8 to 5.16 6.0 to 6.3

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.two.2.1.0-2.1.0

MS AZURE SOURCES

Azure Synapse Analytics

latest available at release date

***

***

com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.com.microsoft.sqlserver. 9.4.0.jre11

Hive on Azure HDInsight

3.5, 3.6

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

Hive 3 on Azure HDInsight

4.0

com.alation.drivers.hive.Hive2Driver.com.alation.drivers. hive.zero.fourteen.0.14.0-0.14.0

* Query Log Ingestion (QLI). Note that Alation does not support QLI for data sources on RDS.

** Case sensitivity is not supported.

*** Lineage and Popularity are calculated based on queries ingested from Compose.

Data Sources Supported as Custom DB

Note that CData drivers can be purchased from Alation. See CData Drivers for details.

Database Type

Version Supported

Metadata Extraction

Compose

Profiling

Sampling

QLI

Popularity

Lineage

Custom Query Based Column Profiling

Driver

Driver Version

Amazon Athena (Engine version 1)

latest

Simba

Simba driver 2.0.9 for Amazon Athena

Azure Databricks

8.3, 8,4

Simba

SimbaSparkJDBC-2.6.17-1021

GCP Databricks

8.2

*

*

Simba

SimbaSparkJDBC-2.6.16-1020

Azure Synapse Analytics (Azure DW)

Latest

Microsoft

com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc. SQLServerDriver.com.microsoft. sqlserver.9.4.0.jre11

Cassandra

3.11

*

*

CData

CData cassandra driver 2021

Confluent Kafka

2.7.x

CData

CData Kafka Driver 2021

Cosmos DB

latest

*

*

CData

CData Cosmos Driver 2021

Denodo

8

Denodo

denodo-vdp-jdbcdriver-8.0-ga

Amazon DynamoDB

2019.11.21

*

*

CData

CData DynamoDB Driver 2021

ElasticSearch

6.0

CData

CData ElasticSearch Driver 2021

EMR Presto on Hive with AWS Glue

EMR 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 Presto 0.238.3

Facebook

com.facebook.presto.jdbc. PrestoDriver 0.227

EMR SparkSQL on Hive

EMR 6.1, 6.2 Spark 3.x

*

*

CData

CData SparkSQL Driver 2020

GitHub Beta

3.x

CData

CData GitHub Driver 2021

MarkLogic

10.0

*

CData

CData MarkLogic Driver 2020

MongoDB

4.2, 4.4

*

*

CData

CData MongoDB Driver 2021

MongoDB Atlas on AWS

4.2, 4.4

*

*

CData

CData MongoDB Driver 2021

Parquet (Amazon S3)

Apache Parquet API V2.0

*

CData

CData Parquet Driver 2021

Parquet (ADLS Gen2)

Apache Parquet API V2.0

*

CData

CData Parquet Driver 2021

Salesforce

Summer 2021

CData

CData SalesforceDB Driver 2021

ServiceNow

Paris

CData

CData ServiceNow Driver 2021

Splunk

8.2.x

CData

CData Splunk Driver 2021

Starburst Enterprise Presto (Trino) on AWS

350-e LTS, 360-eLTS on AWS

Starburst

presto-cli-350-executable.jar from starburst

* Lineage and Popularity are calculated based on queries ingested from Compose.

Supported DB Authentication Methods

Note that for all database types listed in this table, Alation supports basic authentication, and users can connect with their database credentials (database account login and password). The table focuses on specific authentication methods which our customers usually ask about.

Database Type

PM*

Cross DB

SSL

NTLM

Kerberos

Proxy Access**

Keytab

LDAP

Cassandra

DB2 (LUW)

Greenplum

MongoDB

MySQL

Oracle

Oracle E-Business Suite

PostgreSQl (enterprise)

PostgreSQl (open source)

Presto over Hive

Salesforce DB

n/a

SAP HANA

SAS Base

SingleStore (Former MemSQL)

Snowflake

SQL Server

Sybase ASE

Sybase IQ

Teradata

Teradata Aster

Vertica

SOURCES ON AWS RDS

MySQL

Oracle

PostgreSQl (open source)

SQL Server

AMAZON SOURCES

AWS Databricks

AWS Glue

Amazon Redshift

n/a

Amazon Redshift Spectrum

n/a

GOOGLE SOURCES

Google BigQuery

HADOOP SOURCES

Hive

Authentication for Hive

Authentication for Hive 3

Impala

SparkSQL over Hive Metastore

MS AZURE SOURCES

Azure Data Warehouse

Azure Databricks

Azure HDInsight

*Permission Mirroring

** Knox, Ranger, Blue Talon, Zookeeper

Note that SASL is only supported for Hive data sources.

Authentication for Custom DB

Database

OAuth

OAuth for Compose

Kerberos

Keytab

LDAP

Amazon Athena

Azure Databricks

GCP Databricks

Azure Synapse Analytics (Azure DW)

Cassandra

Confluent Kafka

Cosmos DB

Denodo

Amazon DynamoDB

ElasticSearch

EMR Presto on Hive with AWS Glue

EMR SparkSQL on Hive

GitHub Beta

MongoDB

MongoDB Atlas on AWS

Parquet (Amazon S3)

Parquet (ADLS Gen2)

Salesforce

ServiceNow

Splunk

Starburst Enterprise Presto (Trino)

Authentication for Hive

Distribution and Data Platforms

Authentication

Support*

MapR

Basic

Kerberos (and keytab)

Hive SSL

HTTPFS Kerberos

Wire-level security

SASL

HDP

Basic

Kerberos (and keytab)

Azure Encryption

Hive SSL

WebHDFS SSL

HTTPFS Kerberos

Knox Kerberos

Knox LDAP

Hive Zookeeper URL

SASL

CDH

Basic

Kerberos (and keytab)

Hive SSL

WebHDFS SSL

HTTPFS Kerberos

Hive Zookeeper URL

SASL

EMR

Basic

Kerberos (and keytab)

Hive SSL

WebHDFS SSL

SASL

EMR with Tez

Kerberos (and keytab)

LDAP

* Support of authentication methods depends on your Hive setup. This table shows all the authentication methods Alation can potentially support for Hive. For more details on Hive data sources, refer to Hive.

Authentication for Hive 3

Distribution and Data Platforms

Authentication

Support*

HDP

Basic

Kerberos (and keytab)

Azure Encryption

(only in Azure HDP))

Hive SSL

WebHDFS SSL

HTTPFS Kerberos

Knox Kerberos

Knox LDAP

Hive Zookeeper URL

SASL

CDP

Basic

Kerberos (and keytab)

Azure Encryption

Hive SSL

WebHDFS SSL

HTTPFS Kerberos

Knox Kerberos

Knox LDAP

Hive Zookeeper URL

SASL

EMR

Basic

Kerberos (and keytab)

Azure Encryption

Hive SSL

WebHDFS SSL

HTTPFS Kerberos

Knox Kerberos

Knox LDAP

Hive Zookeeper URL

SASL

* Support of authentication methods depends on your Hive setup. This table shows all the authentication methods Alation can potentially support for Hive. For more details on Hive data sources, refer to Hive.

Supported BI Tools

Tool

Supported Version

Metadata Extraction

Lineage

Access Rules

Stats

SSL

Tableau Server* GBM V2**

2019.2, 2019.3, 2019.4, 2020.1, 2020.2, 2020.3, 2020.4, 2021.1, 2021.2, 2021.3

MicroStrategy GBM V2***

11.1 (on-prem), 2019 Cloud, 2020 Cloud,

SSRS (without Sharepoint)

2012, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19

SSRS (with Sharepoint)

2012, 16

* Tableau Online is not supported.

** From release 2020.4, a Tableau Server BI source can only be added using the GBM V2 framework. Tableau Legacy model is no longer available for new Tableau Server sources.

*** From release 2021.2, a MicroStrategy BI source can only be added using the GBM V2 framework.

Supported OCF Connectors

BI Connectors

Connectors

Supported Version

Metadata Extraction

Lineage

Access Rules

Stats

SSL

Looker

Cloud 7.x

Power BI Pro

latest

SAP BO

4.2

RDBMS Connectors

Connectors

Version Supported

Metadata Extraction

Compose

Sampling / Profiling

QLI*

Popularity

Lineage

Driver

Driver Version

MySQL EC2

5.7, 8.0

native

Version 8.0.21

MySQL RDS

5.7, 8.0

**

**

native

Version 8.0.21

Oracle EC2

11g, 12c, 18c, 19c

native

12.1.0.2-tlsPatch

Oracle RDS

11gR2,12c, 12.2, 18c, 19c

**

**

native

12.1.0.2-tlsPatch

* Query Log Ingestion (QLI). Note that Alation does not support QLI for data sources on RDS.

** Lineage and Popularity are calculated based on queries ingested from Compose.

Supported File Systems

File System

Version Supported

Authentication Method

Metadata Extraction

Amazon S3

latest

basic, IAM Role

Azure Blob Storage

2018-03-28

basic

Azure Data Lake

Gen 1

SSL, AAD*

Azure Data Lake

Gen 2**

SSL, AAD*

HDFS - CDH

5.2 to 5.16 6.0 to 6.3

SSL, Kerberos

HDFS - HDP

2.4, 2.5.3, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 3.0.1, 3.1.0, 3.1.4

SSL, Kerberos

* Azure Active Directory

** ADLS Gen 2 can be added using the Azure Blob Storage native connector.

Supported Docker Versions

Supported OS for the Alation Server

  • CentOS 7.x or 8.x

  • RedHat 7.x or 8.x

  • Ubuntu 16, 18, 20

  • AWS Linux 2

  • Fedora 31, 32, 33, 34

  • Debian 9, 10

  • Oracle Linux on Red Hat Compatible Kernel 7, 8

More information: System Requirements

Supported Browsers

Browser

Version

OS Version

Chrome

94.0.4606.81

Windows 10

Mozilla Firefox

93

Windows 10

Microsoft Edge Chromium

94.0.992.50

Windows 10

SSO Catalog

Application

Protocol

Ping

SAML 2.0

OKTA

SAML 2.0

OneLogin

SAML 2.0

Azure AD

SAML 2.0

ADFS

SAML 2.0

Auth0

SAML 2.0

SSO - Compose

Database Type

Azure AD

AD FS

OKTA

PingFederate

One Login

Auth0

Snowflake IDP

Amazon Athena

Amazon Redshift

Amazon DynamoDB

AWS EMR

Azure Databricks

Azure Synapse Analytics (DW)

Azure SQL (SQL DB)

Snowflake

MDE - AuthService

MDE and Profiling with IAM Role. This feature is Beta in 2021.3.

Connector

Basic Auth (IAM User)

IAM Role

Amazon Athena

*

Amazon Redshift

*

Amazon DynamoDB

AWS Glue

Amazon S3

*

* Limitations for extractions running for 12 hours or less.

Definitions

Compose: the Alation query tool for authoring, running, and publishing SQL queries to the data catalog.

Lineage: visual representation of how tables, views, and BI reports are derived from source tables.

Metadata Extraction: extraction of metadata from a source into the catalog with the goal of synchronizing them and providing catalog users with a representation of the data contained in this source. Metadata extraction can be run manually or on an automatic schedule that depends on your organization’s needs and usage.

Popularity: an indicator of the popularity (intensity of use) of a data object, such as a table or a column. Popularity is calculated through an algorithm that analyzes both the results of Query Log Ingestion and Compose usage to determine the number of Alation users that have used the object and the number of times the object has been used.

Query Log Ingestion (QLI): processing of a selection of database query logs by Alation in order to calculate Popularity, Top Users, and supply JOIN information to the catalog.

Sampling: Creation of data samples for the cataloged data sources. When you perform data sampling in Alation, it scans the first 10,000 rows of a table. A data sample is a random sample of 100 rows out of those 10,000 scanned rows intended to provide you with an understanding of what kind of data is contained in the profiled table without the need to run a query.

What Is Different Compared to 2021.3?

This table contains the changes compared to the previous release.

Change

Description

Added support for new data sources as Custom DB

Added ElasticSearch and Parquet (ADLS Gen2)

Driver upgrades

Upgraded Azure Synapse Analytics driver, GBQ driver, MySQL driver, Snowflake driver, SQL Server driver, Cassandra driver, Cosmos driver, DynamoDB driver, MondoDB driver, MongoDB Atlas driver, SalesforceDB driver, and ServiceNow driver.

CDP

Added support for version 7.1

Databricks

Added support for version 8.4

Tableau

Added support for 2021.3

MySQL EC2

Supported on OCF

MySQL RDS

Supported on OCF

Supported browsers

Updated browser versions

Change Log

This table contains corrections made between major releases when Alation finds issues with support of versions announced earlier.

Date

Change

11-03-22

Updated the PostgreSQL driver version for the patch release version 2021.4.9