Amazon Athena
Supported
Data warehouses & lakehouses
Catalog AWS Glue Data Catalog databases, tables, views and columns queried through Amazon Athena.
Capabilities
| Capability | Support | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tables, views & columns | Supported | |
| Keys, constraints & indexes | Not available | |
| Procedures & functions | Not available | |
| Data lineage | Partial | |
| Lineage from query history | Not available | |
| Business glossary links | Supported | |
| Data quality probes | Supported | |
| Data profiling | Supported | |
| Data classification | Supported | |
| Chat with your data | Supported |
Connection settings
Create the connection on the Blindata Agent from Settings > Agents > Connections with the connection wizard, choosing Amazon Athena in the technology step.
| Driver class | com.simba.athena.jdbc.Driver |
|---|---|
| JDBC URL | jdbc:athena://athena.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:443 |
| Authentication |
Service principal (shared technical user) User principal (personal credentials, BYOC) Ephemeral credentials (asked at each run)
|
| Crawling strategy | JDBC or SQL |
Connection properties
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
S3OutputLocation | S3 location where Athena writes query results. |
AwsRegion | AWS region of the Athena workgroup. |
The Blindata Agent does not include this driver: download the vendor JDBC driver and copy the .jar into the agent drivers folder, as described in
Add JDBC drivers.
Driver properties can be added under Advanced settings in the connection wizard.
Prerequisites & permissions
- A Blindata Agent installed with network access to Amazon Athena.
- The vendor JDBC driver installed on the agent (see Add JDBC drivers).
- An IAM principal with
athena:StartQueryExecution,athena:GetQueryResultsandglue:Get*on the catalog. - Write access to the S3 output location; read access to the S3 data for data quality and profiling.
Set up metadata crawling
- Create the connection to Amazon Athena on the agent (see Connection settings) and use Test to verify it.
- Create or open the system that represents Amazon Athena in the catalog and link it to the connection.
- In the CRAWLING tab add a crawling job with strategy JDBC or SQL.
- Run a TEST to check the number of extracted objects, then RUN or schedule the job.
The job options and the column aliases of every extraction query are described in the Generic JDBC reference.