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About the Generic JDBC collector

Use this collector to harvest metadata for tables and columns in the connected data source and make it searchable and discoverable in data.world.

Important

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

Note

The latest version of the Collector is 2.245. 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

Columns

Name, Description, JDBC type, Column Type, Is Nullable, Default Value, Key type (Primary, Foreign), Column size, Column index

Table

Name, Description, Primary key, Schema

Views

Name, description

Schema

Identifier, Name

Database

Type, Name, Identifier, Server, Port, Environment, JDBC URL



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 1.

Resource page

Relationship

Table

Columns

Columns

Table

Schema

Database that contains Schema, Table that is part of Schema

Database

Schema contained in Database



Authentication supported

The collector supports username/password authentication.