Athena

For context on getting started with ingestion, check out our metadata ingestion guide.

Setup

To install this plugin, run pip install 'acryl-datahub[athena]'.

Athena source only works with python 3.7+.

Capabilities

This plugin extracts the following:

Metadata for databases, schemas, and tables
Column types associated with each table
Table, row, and column statistics via optional SQL profiling

Capability	Status	Details
Platform Instance	✔️	link

Quickstart recipe

Check out the following recipe to get started with ingestion! See below for full configuration options.

For general pointers on writing and running a recipe, see our main recipe guide.

source:
  type: athena
  config:
    # Coordinates
    aws_region: my_aws_region_name
    work_group: my_work_group

    # Credentials
    username: my_aws_access_key_id
    password: my_aws_secret_access_key
    database: my_database

    # Options
    s3_staging_dir: "s3://<bucket-name>/<folder>/"

sink:
  # sink configs

Config details

Note that a . is used to denote nested fields in the YAML recipe.

As a SQL-based service, the Athena integration is also supported by our SQL profiler. See here for more details on configuration.

Field	Required	Default	Description
`username`		Autodetected	Username credential. If not specified, detected with boto3 rules. See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/credentials.html
`password`		Autodetected	Same detection scheme as `username`
`database`		Autodetected
`aws_region`	✅		AWS region code.
`s3_staging_dir`	✅		Of format `"s3://<bucket-name>/prefix/"`. The `s3_staging_dir` parameter is needed because Athena always writes query results to S3. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/querying.html.
`work_group`	✅		Name of Athena workgroup. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/manage-queries-control-costs-with-workgroups.html.
`env`		`"PROD"`	Environment to use in namespace when constructing URNs.
`platform_instance`		None	The Platform instance to use while constructing URNs.
`options.<option>`			Any options specified here will be passed to SQLAlchemy's `create_engine` as kwargs. See https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/core/engines.html#sqlalchemy.create_engine for details.
`table_pattern.allow`			List of regex patterns for tables to include in ingestion.
`table_pattern.deny`			List of regex patterns for tables to exclude from ingestion.
`table_pattern.ignoreCase`		`True`	Whether regex matching should ignore case or not
`schema_pattern.allow`			List of regex patterns for schemas to include in ingestion.
`schema_pattern.deny`			List of regex patterns for schemas to exclude from ingestion.
`schema_pattern.ignoreCase`		`True`	Whether regex matching should ignore case or not
`view_pattern.allow`			List of regex patterns for views to include in ingestion.
`view_pattern.deny`			List of regex patterns for views to exclude from ingestion.
`view_pattern.ignoreCase`		`True`	Whether regex matching should ignore case or not
`include_tables`		`True`	Whether tables should be ingested.
`include_views`		`False`	Whether views should be ingested.

Compatibility

Coming soon!

Questions

If you've got any questions on configuring this source, feel free to ping us on our Slack!

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