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What does Atlan crawl from SAP HANA?

TL;DR

During a SAP HANA crawl, Atlan extracts metadata for Schemas, Tables, Views, Calculation Views, Functions, Stored Procedures, and User Defined Functions. Reference tables map each SAP HANA property to its Atlan asset.

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Atlan extracts metadata for Schemas, Tables, Views, Calculation Views, Functions, Stored Procedures, and User Defined Functions from SAP HANA and maps each property to its internal asset model. The tables below list which SAP HANA properties are read and how they appear on the corresponding Atlan asset.

Schemas​

Atlan maps schemas from SAP HANA to its Schema asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
SCHEMA_NAMEname
TABLE_COUNTtableCount
VIEW_COUNTviewsCount

Tables​

Atlan maps tables from SAP HANA to its Table asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
TABLE_NAMEname
COMMENTSdescription
COLUMN_COUNTcolumnCount
ROW_COUNTrowCount
TABLE_SIZEsizeBytes
IS_PARTITIONEDisPartitioned
IS_TEMPORARYisTemporary

Views​

Atlan maps views from SAP HANA to its View asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
VIEW_NAMEname
COMMENTSdescription
COLUMN_COUNTcolumnCount
DEFINITIONdefinition

Calculation views​

Atlan maps calculation views from SAP HANA to its CalculationView asset type. Atlan supports upstream lineage to source tables and calculation views. Column-level lineage is currently not supported.

Source propertyAtlan property
OBJECT_NAMEname
COLUMN_COUNTcolumnCount
VERSION_IDcalculationViewVersionId
ACTIVATED_BYcalculationViewActivatedBy
ACTIVATED_ATcalculationViewActivatedAt

Columns​

For tables and views​

Atlan maps columns for tables and views from SAP HANA to its Column asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
COLUMN_NAMEname
COMMENTSdescription
POSITIONorder
DATA_TYPE_NAMEdataType
IS_NULLABLEisNullable
LENGTHmaxLength
CONSTRAINT (PRIMARY KEY)isPrimary
REFERENCED_COLUMN_NAMEisForeign
DECIMAL_DIGITSprecision
SCALEnumericScale
DEFAULT_VALUEdefaultValue

For calculation views​

Atlan maps columns for calculation views from SAP HANA to its Column asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
COLUMN_NAMEname
LABELdescription
ORDERorder
COLUMN_SQL_TYPEdataType
            -columnIsMeasure
MEASURE_TYPEcolumnMeasureType

The columnIsMeasure property is derived as a Boolean value based on the MEASURE_TYPE field.

Functions​

Atlan maps table functions from SAP HANA to its Function asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
FUNCTION_NAMEname
FUNCTION_TYPEfunctionType
IS_ENCRYPTEDfunctionIsSecure
OWNER_NAMEsourceOwners
DEFINITIONfunctionDefinition

Stored procedures​

Atlan maps stored procedures in SAP HANA to its Procedure asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
PROCEDURE_NAMEname
PROCEDURE_TYPEsubType
DEFINITIONdefinition

User defined functions​

Atlan maps user defined functions from SAP HANA's sys.functions view to its asset type.

Source propertyAtlan property
FUNCTION_NAMEname
DEFINITIONHandler Code
SCHEMA_NAMEschemaName
FUNCTION_TYPE + ': ' + FUNCTION_USAGE_TYPEfunctionType
OWNER_NAMESource Owner
IS_ENCRYPTEDIs Secure