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)

Core Capabilities

Automated metadata extraction (MDE)

Query-based MDE

Search

Catalog page curation

Catalog sets

Propagation of data quality flags

Popularity

Compose

On-prem Alation instances

Alation Cloud Service instances*

* Compose for data sources connected via Alation Agent is supported from connector version 1.2.11.2455.

Query Log Ingestion (QLI)

Table-based

Query-based

Filters

Lineage

Sampling and Profiling

Table sampling

Custom query-based table sampling

Custom query-based column profiling

Dynamic profiling

Authentication

Basic (username and password)

Kerberos

Keytab

LDAP

Technical Metadata

Tables

Columns

Primary keys

Foreign keys

Views

Schemas

Source comments*

Synonyms

* Source comments are not supported for materialized view.