PRODUCT · ALATION CONNECTORS & SDKs
Every source connected.
Your knowledge stays yours.
Alation extracts full metadata, profiling, and lineage from every major platform in your estate: warehouses, databases, BI tools, ETL pipelines, SaaS applications, and enterprise systems. Open standards and SDKs cover anything pre-built connectors don't.
Your governance, quality rules, and business context remain independent of any compute vendor. Open formats solved data portability. Alation solves context portability.
WHY IT MATTERS
Your data spans every platform. Your catalog should too.
Your data doesn't stay inside one perimeter. Neither should what you know about it.
Connected estate
Every connector extracts full metadata, profiling, and lineage, not just schema. Custom connectors built on the Open Connector Framework run the same pipeline, so nothing you connect yourself is second-class in the catalog.
CONNECTORS FAQ
What you need to know about Alation Connectors
Q1 —
What platforms does Alation connect to?
Alation offers pre-built connectors to Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Teradata, SAP HANA, SAP ERP, Salesforce, MongoDB, dbt, Fivetran, AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage, and 100+ more. Each connector extracts full metadata, profiling, and lineage rather than surface-level schema. For sources that pre-built connectors don't cover, the Open Connector Framework and SDKs let you build custom connectors that run the same full extraction pipeline.
Q2 —
How is Alation different from platform-native connectors?
Platform-native connectors are anchored within their own perimeter. Alation connects across every platform in your estate and builds one governed record that spans all of them. Definitions mastered once propagate to every consuming platform. When you change your warehouse or BI tool, your governance, quality rules, and business context come with you rather than staying behind.
Q3 —
What open standards does Alation support?
MCP for agent access, OpenLineage for cross-platform lineage ingestion, SCIM for identity provisioning, OAuth for authentication, and ODPS for interoperability. These standards ensure Alation works with the protocols your stack already uses rather than requiring proprietary integrations.
Q4 —
What happens to my catalog when I change platforms?
Your governance, quality rules, lineage, and business context stay in Alation, independent of any compute vendor. Change your warehouse, BI tool, or model provider without rebuilding what you know about your data. The catalog is the durable layer that survives platform decisions. Open formats solved data portability. Alation solves context portability.
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