About Google Dataplex Universal Catalog integration via Edge

This feature is available only in the latest UI.

Knowledge Catalog (formerly Google Dataplex Universal Catalog) is a technical catalog from Google that provides information for data in the various Dataplex projects. The Dataplex Universal Catalog integration provides a unified view of the metadata across all your Dataplex projects in Collibra Platform.

Collibra offers two Dataplex integration types:

The Google Dataplex Universal Catalog integration is based on the Dataplex Universal Catalog and enables seamless integration between Collibra and Dataplex Universal Catalog. It supports both inbound and outbound (private preview) metadata flows to keep your catalog in sync with Dataplex Universal Catalog.

  • Inbound: Integrates metadata from Google Dataplex Universal Catalog into the Catalog. The resulting assets represent Views, Entries, and Aspects.
  • Outbound: Pushes enriched metadata from Collibra Platform back to aspects in Google Dataplex Universal Catalog. Updates to assets in Collibra Platform, such as the definition of business context, policies, ownership, and data quality rules, are also reflected in Dataplex Universal Catalog. Any attribute changes in Collibra Platform are reflected for all supported asset types in the Dataplex Universal Catalog integration. This includes Schema, Table, Database View, and Column assets. This feature is in preview.

For information about Dataplex Universal Catalog, go to the Google documentation.

Important 
  • Currently, only assets that belong to the BigQuery Entry Group in Dataplex are ingested.
  • When you integrate the metadata, you can also profile and classify the data, and request the sample data without registering a BigQuery data source via the BigQuery JDBC driver. This feature is in preview.
    For more information about working with BigQuery, go to Ways to integrate Google BigQuery data sources.
    To learn how to integrate Dataplex Universal Catalog with sampling, profiling, and classification, go to Steps: Integrate Google Dataplex Universal Catalog via Edge.

The following image shows the asset types in Collibra after integrating Dataplex Universal Catalog.

Tip  You can also create technical lineage for Dataplex Universal Catalog via Edge, go to the technical lineage for Dataplex Universal Catalog documentation.