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What does Atlan crawl from Cloudera Impala?

Atlan crawls and maps the following assets and properties from Cloudera Impala. This integration helps you understand and govern data stored in Impala by organizing metadata into Atlan asset types and enabling downstream visibility, including lineage.

Lineage

Atlan supports the following lineage in Cloudera Impala.

  • Asset-level and field-level lineage for Tables → Views
  • Asset-level and field-level lineage for Views → Views

Schema

Atlan maps databases from Cloudera Impala schema to its Schema asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
ownersourceOwners
commentdescription
external_locationschemaExternalLocation

Tables

Atlan maps Cloudera Impala tables to its Tables asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
rowsrowCount
sizeBytessizeBytes
ownersourceOwners
stats.partitionCount (Only applicable for Kudu tables)partitionCount
OutputFormat (Not available for Impala-managed Kudu tables for Impala 3.3+)externalLocationFormat
LocationexternalLocation
Table TypesubType
commentdescription
table_querytableDefinition

Views

Atlan maps tables from Cloudera Impala views to its Views asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
rowsrowCount
sizeBytessizeBytes
ownersourceOwners
Table TypesubType
KUDU (only set for Kudu tables)tableType
commentdescription
VIEW_DEFINITIONdefinition

Columns

Atlan maps columns from Cloudera Impala to its Column asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
column_namename
ENCODING (only applicable for Kudu table types)columnEncoding
COMPRESSION (only applicable for Kudu table types)columnCompression
PRIMARY_KEY (only applicable for Kudu tables)isPrimary
ISNULLABLEisNullable
TYPEdataType
COMMENTdescription