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About the Denodo collector

Use this collector to harvest metadata for Denodo tables and columns across the enterprise systems and make it searchable and discoverable in data.world.

Important

The Denodo collector can be run in the Cloud or on-premise using Docker or Jar files.

Note

The latest version of the Collector is 2.222. To view the release notes for this version and all previous versions, please go here.

What is cataloged

The collector catalogs the following information.

Table 1.

Object

Information cataloged

Database

Identifier, Type, Connection: name, Connection: port, Connection: server

Base View

Name, Description, Primary keys, Foreign keys

Derived View

Name, Description, Definition SQL

Interface View

Name, Description, Definition VQL

Materialized Table

Name, Description, Definition VQL

Columns

Name, JDBC type, Type, Type Name, Is Nullable, Default value, Key type (Primary, Foreign), Size, Index

Stored Procedure

Name, Description, Return type

Schema

Name (equivalent to database name)



Relationships between objects

By default, the harvested metadata includes catalog pages for the following resource types. Each catalog page has a relationship to the other related resource types. If the metadata presentation for this data source has been customized with the help of the data.world Solutions team, you may see other resource pages and relationships.

Table 2.

Resource page

Relationship

Base View

Contains Columns. Is part of Database

Interface View

Contains Columns. Is part of Database

Derived View

Contains Columns. Is part of Database

Materialized Table

Contains Columns. Is part of Database

Columns

Column is part of Base View, Interface View, Derived View or Materialized Table

Database

Schema, Tables, Views, Stored Procedures contained in Database

Schema

Schema has stored procedure



Lineage for Denodo

  • The collector queries Denodo’s built-in VIEW_DEPENDENCIES(), GET_SOURCE_COLUMNS(),  and  COLUMN_DEPENDENCIES() stored procedures and DESC VQL WRAPPER JDBC, DESC VQL VIEW, and DESC VQL VIEW queries to find the tables and views from which each view selects data. It harvests a lineage relationship between the view and each of these dependent tables.

    Table 3.

    Object

    Lineage available

    Column in Base View

    The collector identifies the associated column in an upstream view or table from the JDBC source:

    • Where the data was derived from

    Column in Derived View

    The collector identifies the associated column in an upstream view or table:

    • Where the data is sourced from

    • That sort the rows via ORDER BY

    • That filter the rows via WHERE/HAVING

    • That aggregate the rows via GROUP BY

    Column in Interface View

    The collector identifies the associated column in an upstream view or table:

    • Where the column selects data from



Denodo versions supported

  • The collector supports Virtual DataPort version 8.0

Authentication supported

  • The collector supports username/password authentication to Denodo.