2024.3 Native and Custom DB Connectors

Refer to the tables below for information on supported databases, file systems, BI tools, and their versions.

Important

Alation has certified support for the versions in this matrix with release 2024.3. If your Alation instance uses a different release, refer to the Support Matrix corresponding to this release.

If you do not find the version of interest in this Support Matrix, contact Alation Support for clarifications.

Data Sources Supported with Native Connectors

You can no longer be add the data sources via built-in connectors by default. See Deprecated Connectors for the end of support information. To add a data source, use RDBMS OCF Connectors.

BI Sources Supported with Native Connectors for BI Tools

This table lists BI tools supported with the native (built-in) BI connectors.

Tool

Supported Version

Metadata Extraction

Lineage

Access Rules

Stats

SSL

Tableau Server GBM V2*

2020.4, 2021.1, 2021.2, 2021.3, 2021.4, 2022.1 2022.3

MicroStrategy GBM V2

2020 Cloud

SSRS (without Sharepoint)

2014, 2016, 2017, 2019

SSRS (with Sharepoint)

2016

* Tableau Online is not supported with the native connector for Tableau but is supported with the corresponding OCF connector (see Tableau).

File Systems Supported with Native Connectors

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

6.3

SSL, Kerberos

HDFS - CDP

7.1.3, 7.1.7

SSL, Kerberos

* Azure Active Directory

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

Data Sources Supported with Custom DB

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

* Lineage is calculated based on queries ingested from Compose.

** Only SQL Compliance Queries are supported. Create Schemas, Tables, and Views are not supported.

Authentication Methods

Authentication for Custom DB

SSO with Compose (Native and Custom DB Connectors)

MDE through AuthService (Native and Custom DB Connectors)

AWS data sources support MDE and Profiling with authentication with an IAM Role.

* This feature is Beta - 2021.3 and above.