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Databricks

DataHub supports integration with Databricks ecosystem using a multitude of connectors, depending on your exact setup.

Databricks Hive​

The simplest way to integrate is usually via the Hive connector. The Hive starter recipe has a section describing how to connect to your Databricks workspace.

Databricks Unity Catalog (new)​

The recently introduced Unity Catalog provides a new way to govern your assets within the Databricks lakehouse. If you have enabled Unity Catalog, you can use the unity-catalog source (see below) to integrate your metadata into DataHub as an alternate to the Hive pathway.

Databricks Spark​

To complete the picture, we recommend adding push-based ingestion from your Spark jobs to see real-time activity and lineage between your Databricks tables and your Spark jobs. Use the Spark agent to push metadata to DataHub using the instructions here.

Watch the DataHub Talk at the Data and AI Summit 2022​

For a deeper look at how to think about DataHub within and across your Databricks ecosystem, watch the recording of our talk at the Data and AI Summit 2022.

Incubating

Important Capabilities​

CapabilityStatusNotes
Asset Containers✅Enabled by default
Column-level Lineage✅Enabled by default
Dataset Usage✅Enabled by default
Descriptions✅Enabled by default
Detect Deleted Entities✅Optionally enabled via stateful_ingestion.remove_stale_metadata
Domains✅Supported via the domain config field
Extract Ownership✅Supported via the include_ownership config
Platform Instance✅Enabled by default
Schema Metadata✅Enabled by default
Table-Level Lineage✅Enabled by default

This plugin extracts the following metadata from Databricks Unity Catalog:

  • metastores
  • schemas
  • tables and column lineage

Prerequisities​

  • Get your Databricks instance's workspace url
  • Create a Databricks Service Principal
    • You can skip this step and use your own account to get things running quickly, but we strongly recommend creating a dedicated service principal for production use.
  • Generate a Databricks Personal Access token following the following guides:
  • Provision your service account:
    • To ingest your workspace's metadata and lineage, your service principal must have all of the following:
      • One of: metastore admin role, ownership of, or USE CATALOG privilege on any catalogs you want to ingest
      • One of: metastore admin role, ownership of, or USE SCHEMA privilege on any schemas you want to ingest
      • Ownership of or SELECT privilege on any tables and views you want to ingest
      • Ownership documentation
      • Privileges documentation
    • To ingest your workspace's notebooks and respective lineage, your service principal must have CAN_READ privileges on the folders containing the notebooks you want to ingest: guide.
    • To include_usage_statistics (enabled by default), your service principal must have CAN_MANAGE permissions on any SQL Warehouses you want to ingest: guide.
    • To ingest profiling information with call_analyze (enabled by default), your service principal must have ownership or MODIFY privilege on any tables you want to profile.
      • Alternatively, you can run ANALYZE TABLE yourself on any tables you want to profile, then set call_analyze to false. You will still need SELECT privilege on those tables to fetch the results.
  • Check the starter recipe below and replace workspace_url and token with your information from the previous steps.

CLI based Ingestion​

Install the Plugin​

pip install 'acryl-datahub[unity-catalog]'

Starter 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: unity-catalog
  config:
    workspace_url: https://my-workspace.cloud.databricks.com
    token: "mygenerated_databricks_token"
    #metastore_id_pattern:
    #  deny:
    #    - 11111-2222-33333-44-555555
    #catalog_pattern:
    #  allow:
    #    - my-catalog
    #schema_pattern:
    #  deny:
    #    - information_schema
    #table_pattern:
    #  allow:
    #    - test.lineagedemo.dinner
    # First you have to create domains on Datahub by following this guide -> https://datahubproject.io/docs/domains/#domains-setup-prerequisites-and-permissions
    #domain:
    #  urn:li:domain:1111-222-333-444-555:
    #    allow:
    #      - main.*

    stateful_ingestion:
      enabled: true

pipeline_name: acme-corp-unity


# sink configs if needed

Config Details​

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

FieldDescription
token ✅
string
Databricks personal access token
workspace_url ✅
string
Databricks workspace url. e.g. https://my-workspace.cloud.databricks.com
bucket_duration
Enum
Size of the time window to aggregate usage stats.
Default: DAY
enable_stateful_profiling
boolean
Enable stateful profiling. This will store profiling timestamps per dataset after successful profiling. and will not run profiling again in subsequent run if table has not been updated.
Default: True
end_time
string(date-time)
Latest date of lineage/usage to consider. Default: Current time in UTC
format_sql_queries
boolean
Whether to format sql queries
Default: False
include_column_lineage
boolean
Option to enable/disable lineage generation. Currently we have to call a rest call per column to get column level lineage due to the Databrick api which can slow down ingestion.
Default: True
include_metastore
boolean
Whether to ingest the workspace's metastore as a container and include it in all urns. Changing this will affect the urns of all entities in the workspace. This will be disabled by default in the future, so it is recommended to set this to False for new ingestions. If you have an existing unity catalog ingestion, you'll want to avoid duplicates by soft deleting existing data. If stateful ingestion is enabled, running with include_metastore: false should be sufficient. Otherwise, we recommend deleting via the cli: datahub delete --platform databricks and re-ingesting with include_metastore: false.
Default: True
include_notebooks
boolean
Ingest notebooks, represented as DataHub datasets.
Default: False
include_operational_stats
boolean
Whether to display operational stats.
Default: True
include_ownership
boolean
Option to enable/disable ownership generation for metastores, catalogs, schemas, and tables.
Default: False
include_read_operational_stats
boolean
Whether to report read operational stats. Experimental.
Default: False
include_table_lineage
boolean
Option to enable/disable lineage generation.
Default: True
include_top_n_queries
boolean
Whether to ingest the top_n_queries.
Default: True
include_usage_statistics
boolean
Generate usage statistics.
Default: True
ingest_data_platform_instance_aspect
boolean
Option to enable/disable ingestion of the data platform instance aspect. The default data platform instance id for a dataset is workspace_name
Default: False
platform_instance
string
The instance of the platform that all assets produced by this recipe belong to
start_time
string(date-time)
Earliest date of lineage/usage to consider. Default: Last full day in UTC (or hour, depending on bucket_duration). You can also specify relative time with respect to end_time such as '-7 days' Or '-7d'.
top_n_queries
integer
Number of top queries to save to each table.
Default: 10
workspace_name
string
Name of the workspace. Default to deployment name present in workspace_url
env
string
The environment that all assets produced by this connector belong to
Default: PROD
catalog_pattern
AllowDenyPattern
Regex patterns for catalogs to filter in ingestion. Specify regex to match the full metastore.catalog name.
Default: {'allow': ['.*'], 'deny': [], 'ignoreCase': True}
catalog_pattern.allow
array(string)
catalog_pattern.deny
array(string)
catalog_pattern.ignoreCase
boolean
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
domain
map(str,AllowDenyPattern)
A class to store allow deny regexes
domain.key.allow
array(string)
domain.key.deny
array(string)
domain.key.ignoreCase
boolean
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
notebook_pattern
AllowDenyPattern
Regex patterns for notebooks to filter in ingestion, based on notebook path. Specify regex to match the entire notebook path in /<dir>/.../<name> format. e.g. to match all notebooks in the root Shared directory, use the regex /Shared/.*.
Default: {'allow': ['.*'], 'deny': [], 'ignoreCase': True}
notebook_pattern.allow
array(string)
notebook_pattern.deny
array(string)
notebook_pattern.ignoreCase
boolean
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
schema_pattern
AllowDenyPattern
Regex patterns for schemas to filter in ingestion. Specify regex to the full metastore.catalog.schema name. e.g. to match all tables in schema analytics, use the regex ^mymetastore\.mycatalog\.analytics$.
Default: {'allow': ['.*'], 'deny': [], 'ignoreCase': True}
schema_pattern.allow
array(string)
schema_pattern.deny
array(string)
schema_pattern.ignoreCase
boolean
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
table_pattern
AllowDenyPattern
Regex patterns for tables to filter in ingestion. Specify regex to match the entire table name in catalog.schema.table format. e.g. to match all tables starting with customer in Customer catalog and public schema, use the regex Customer\.public\.customer.*.
Default: {'allow': ['.*'], 'deny': [], 'ignoreCase': True}
table_pattern.allow
array(string)
table_pattern.deny
array(string)
table_pattern.ignoreCase
boolean
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
user_email_pattern
AllowDenyPattern
regex patterns for user emails to filter in usage.
Default: {'allow': ['.*'], 'deny': [], 'ignoreCase': True}
user_email_pattern.allow
array(string)
user_email_pattern.deny
array(string)
user_email_pattern.ignoreCase
boolean
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
profiling
UnityCatalogProfilerConfig
Data profiling configuration
Default: {'enabled': False, 'operation_config': {'lower_fre...
profiling.call_analyze
boolean
Whether to call ANALYZE TABLE as part of profile ingestion.If false, will ingest the results of the most recent ANALYZE TABLE call, if any.
Default: True
profiling.enabled
boolean
Whether profiling should be done.
Default: False
profiling.max_wait_secs
integer
Maximum time to wait for an ANALYZE TABLE query to complete.
Default: 3600
profiling.max_workers
integer
Number of worker threads to use for profiling. Set to 1 to disable.
Default: 20
profiling.profile_table_level_only
boolean
Whether to perform profiling at table-level only or include column-level profiling as well.
Default: False
profiling.warehouse_id
string
SQL Warehouse id, for running profiling queries.
profiling.operation_config
OperationConfig
Experimental feature. To specify operation configs.
profiling.operation_config.lower_freq_profile_enabled
boolean
Whether to do profiling at lower freq or not. This does not do any scheduling just adds additional checks to when not to run profiling.
Default: False
profiling.operation_config.profile_date_of_month
integer
Number between 1 to 31 for date of month (both inclusive). If not specified, defaults to Nothing and this field does not take affect.
profiling.operation_config.profile_day_of_week
integer
Number between 0 to 6 for day of week (both inclusive). 0 is Monday and 6 is Sunday. If not specified, defaults to Nothing and this field does not take affect.
profiling.pattern
AllowDenyPattern
Regex patterns to filter tables for profiling during ingestion. Specify regex to match the catalog.schema.table format. Note that only tables allowed by the table_pattern will be considered.
Default: {'allow': ['.*'], 'deny': [], 'ignoreCase': True}
profiling.pattern.allow
array(string)
profiling.pattern.deny
array(string)
profiling.pattern.ignoreCase
boolean
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
stateful_ingestion
StatefulStaleMetadataRemovalConfig
Unity Catalog Stateful Ingestion Config.
stateful_ingestion.enabled
boolean
The type of the ingestion state provider registered with datahub.
Default: False
stateful_ingestion.remove_stale_metadata
boolean
Soft-deletes the entities present in the last successful run but missing in the current run with stateful_ingestion enabled.
Default: True

Troubleshooting​

No data lineage captured or missing lineage​

Check that you meet the Unity Catalog lineage requirements.

Also check the Unity Catalog limitations to make sure that lineage would be expected to exist in this case.

Lineage extraction is too slow​

Currently, there is no way to get table or column lineage in bulk from the Databricks Unity Catalog REST api. Table lineage calls require one API call per table, and column lineage calls require one API call per column. If you find metadata extraction taking too long, you can turn off column level lineage extraction via the include_column_lineage config flag.

Code Coordinates​

  • Class Name: datahub.ingestion.source.unity.source.UnityCatalogSource
  • Browse on GitHub

Questions

If you've got any questions on configuring ingestion for Databricks, feel free to ping us on our Slack.