Connecting to Cassandra

This section contains details for Cassandra connections.

General information

Field	Description
Data source	Cassandra
Supported versions	23.0.8839.0 (CDATA)
Connection string	`jdbc:cassandra:`
Packaged?	Yes
Certified?	Yes
Supported features
Estimate job	Yes
Analyze data	Yes
Schedule	Yes
Processing capabilities
Pushdown	No
Spark agent	Yes
Yarn agent	Yes
Parallel JDBC	Yes
Java Platform version compatibility
JDK 8	Yes
JDK 11	Yes

Minimum user permissions

In order to bring your Cassandra data into Collibra Data Quality & Observability, you need the following permissions.

Read access on Cassandra tables.
ROLE_ADMIN assigned to your user in Collibra DQ.

Recommended and required connection properties

Required	Connection Property	Type	Value
Yes	Name	Text	The unique name of your connection. Ensure that there are no spaces in your connection name.
Yes	Connection URL	String	The connection string path of your Cassandra connection. When referring to the example below, replace the `${value}` sections of the connection URL with your actual value. Example `jdbc:cassandra:Port=${port};Server=${host};`
Yes	Driver Name	String	The driver class name of your Cassandra connection. `cdata.jdbc.cassandra.CassandraDriver`
Yes	Port	Integer	The port number to establish a connection to the datasource. The default port is `9042`
No	Source Name	String	N/A
No	Target Agent	Option	The Agent that submits your Spark job for processing.
Yes	Auth Type	Option	The method to authenticate your connection. Note The configuration requirements are different depending on the Auth Type you select. See Authentication for more details on available authentication types.
No	Properties	String	The configurable driver properties for your connection. Multiple properties must be comma delimited. For example, abc=123,test=true

Authentication

Select an authentication type from the dropdown menu. The options available in the dropdown menu are the currently supported authentication types for this data source.

Required	Field	Description
Yes	Username	The username of your Cassandra account.
Yes	Password	The password of your Cassandra account.
Yes	Script	The file path that contains the script file that the password manager uses to interact with and authenticate a user account. Example /tmp/keytab/cassandra_pwd_mgr.sh
No	Param $1	Optional. An additional parameters to authenticate your Cassandra connection.
No	Param $2	Optional. An additional parameter to authenticate your Cassandra connection.
No	Param $3	Optional. An additional parameter to authenticate your Cassandra connection.