CockroachDB

Supported Relational databases

Catalog CockroachDB clusters through the PostgreSQL wire protocol and information_schema.

Capabilities

CapabilitySupportNotes
Tables, views & columns Supported
Keys, constraints & indexes Supported
Procedures & functions Partial User-defined functions and procedures are available from v23.1.
Data lineage Supported
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 PostgreSQL in the technology step.

Driver classorg.postgresql.Driver
JDBC URLjdbc:postgresql://localhost:26257/defaultdb?sslmode=require
Authentication
Service principal (shared technical user)
User principal (personal credentials, BYOC)
Ephemeral credentials (asked at each run)
Crawling strategySQL

The driver is included in the Blindata Agent: no installation is needed. Driver properties can be added under Advanced settings in the connection wizard.

Prerequisites & permissions

  • A Blindata Agent installed with network access to CockroachDB.
  • CONNECT on the database; metadata is visible for objects the user has privileges on.

Set up metadata crawling

  1. Create the connection to CockroachDB on the agent (see Connection settings) and use Test to verify it.
  2. Create or open the system that represents CockroachDB in the catalog and link it to the connection.
  3. In the CRAWLING tab add a crawling job with strategy SQL.
  4. 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.

Updated on 16 Oct 2026