Technical background

The technical background of Collibra Protect explains the connection of the data as it is in the database (DB) with the physical layer (equivalent assets in Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud) and the logical layer (the out of the box model).

Imagine you have this database:

When ingesting this DB to Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud, the physical layer is created as well as an asset for each of the schemas, tables, and columns.

Once there is a physical layer established in our Collibra environment, start creating the logical layer on top of it.

• In this phase, take any column and classify it as any data classification available, or let the platform classify it for you.

• Also, assign a column to a data attribute.

From here, create additional assets or use existing assets of different types (data set, data category, or business process) to establish a relation to these columns.