What does Atlan crawl from Snowflake?

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Atlan crawls and maps the following assets and properties from Snowflake.

Once you've crawled Snowflake, you can use connector-specific filters for quick asset discovery. The following filters are currently supported for these assets:

  • Streams β€” Source type and Stale filters

Databases

Atlan maps databases from Snowflake to its Database asset type.

Source property Atlan property
DATABASES.DATABASE_NAME name
SCHEMATA (count) schemaCount
DATABASES.DATABASE_OWNER sourceCreatedBy
DATABASES.CREATED sourceCreatedAt
DATABASES.LAST_ALTERED sourceUpdatedAt

Schemas

Atlan maps schemas from Snowflake to its Schema asset type.

Source property Atlan property
SCHEMATA.SCHEMA_NAME name
TABLES of type %TABLE% (count) tableCount
TABLES of type %VIEW% (count) viewsCount
SCHEMATA.CATALOG_NAME databaseName
SCHEMATA.SCHEMA_OWNER sourceCreatedBy
SCHEMATA.CREATED sourceCreatedAt
SCHEMATA.LAST_ALTERED sourceUpdatedAt

Tables

Atlan maps tables from Snowflake to its Table asset type.

Source property Atlan property
TABLES.TABLE_NAME name
TABLES.COMMENT description
COLUMNS (count) columnCount
TABLES.ROW_COUNT rowCount
TABLES.BYTES sizeBytes
TABLES.TABLE_OWNER sourceCreatedBy
TABLES.CREATED sourceCreatedAt
TABLES.LAST_ALTERED sourceUpdatedAt

Views

Atlan maps views from Snowflake to its View asset type.

Source property Atlan property
TABLES.TABLE_NAME name
TABLES.COMMENT description
COLUMNS (count) columnCount
VIEWS.VIEW_DEFINITION definition
TABLES.TABLE_OWNER sourceCreatedBy
TABLES.CREATED sourceCreatedAt
TABLES.LAST_ALTERED sourceUpdatedAt

Materialized views

Atlan maps materialized views from Snowflake to its MaterialisedView asset type.

Source property Atlan property
TABLES.TABLE_NAME name
TABLES.COMMENT description
COLUMNS (count) columnCount
TABLES.ROW_COUNT rowCount
TABLES.BYTES sizeBytes
VIEWS.VIEW_DEFINITION definition
TABLES.TABLE_OWNER sourceCreatedBy
TABLES.CREATED sourceCreatedAt
TABLES.LAST_ALTERED sourceUpdatedAt

External tables

Atlan maps external tables from Snowflake to its Table asset type.

Source property Atlan property
TABLES.TABLE_NAME name
TABLES.COMMENT description
COLUMNS (count) columnCount
TABLES.ROW_COUNT rowCount
TABLES.BYTES sizeBytes
EXTERNAL_TABLES.LOCATION externalLocation
STAGES.STAGE_REGION externalLocationRegion
EXTERNAL_TABLES.FILE_FORMAT_TYPE externalLocationFormat
TABLES.TABLE_OWNER sourceCreatedBy
TABLES.CREATED sourceCreatedAt
TABLES.LAST_ALTERED sourceUpdatedAt

Stages

Atlan maps stages from Snowflake to its Table asset type.

Source property Atlan property
TABLES.TABLE_NAME name
TABLES.COMMENT description
COLUMNS (count) columnCount
TABLES.ROW_COUNT rowCount
TABLES.BYTES sizeBytes
EXTERNAL_TABLES.LOCATION externalLocation
STAGES.STAGE_REGION externalLocationRegion
EXTERNAL_TABLES.FILE_FORMAT_TYPE externalLocationFormat
TABLES.TABLE_OWNER sourceCreatedBy
TABLES.CREATED sourceCreatedAt
TABLES.LAST_ALTERED sourceUpdatedAt

Columns

Atlan maps columns from Snowflake to its Column asset type.

Source property Atlan property
COLUMNS.COLUMN_NAME name
COLUMNS.COMMENT description
COLUMNS.ORDINAL_POSITION order
COLUMNS.DATA_TYPE dataType
COLUMNS.IS_NULLABLE isNullable
COLUMNS.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH maxLength
COLUMNS.NUMERIC_PRECISION precision

Streams

Atlan maps streams from Snowflake to its Stream asset type.

Source property Atlan property
STREAMS.NAME name
STREAMS.COMMENT description
STREAMS.OWNER sourceOwners
STREAMS.DATABASE_NAME databaseName
STREAMS.SCHEMA_NAME schemaName
STREAMS.SOURCE_TYPE snowflakeStreamSourceType
STREAMS.STALE snowflakeStreamIsStale
STREAMS.MODE snowflakeStreamMode
STREAMS.STALE_AFTER snowflakeStreamStaleAfter

Pipes

Atlan maps pipes from Snowflake to its Pipe asset type.

Source property Atlan property
PIPES.PIPE_NAME name
PIPES.COMMENT description
PIPES.DEFINITION definition
PIPES.PIPE_OWNER sourceOwners
PIPES.PIPE_CATALOG databaseName
PIPES.PIPE_SCHEMA schemaName
PIPES.IS_AUTOINGEST_ENABLED snowflakePipeIsAutoIngestEnabled
PIPES.NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_NAME snowflakePipeNotificationChannelName

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