MySQL

Add MySQL as a decube connection and help your team discover, document and monitor their data assets to drive data-driven insights and decisions.

Supported Capabilities

Capability	Supported
Metadata Extraction	✅
Metadata Types Collected	Schema, Table, Column
Data Profiling	✅
Data Preview	✅
Data Quality	✅
Configurable Collection	❌
External Table	❌
View Table	❌
Stored Procedure	❌

Data Quality Support

Capability	Supported
Freshness	✅
Volume	✅
Field Health	✅
Custom SQL	✅
Schema Drift	✅
Job Failure	❌

Lineage Support

Capability	Supported
View Table Lineage	❌
External Table Lineage	❌
SQL Query Lineage	❌
Foreign Key Lineage	✅
Stored Procedure Lineage	❌

Connection Requirements

Connecting to decube is as easy as providing us with credentials to your MySQL database. At a minimum, we require

• username

• password

• host address

• host port

• database name

MySQL

The source name will be for you to differentiate and recognize particular sources within the decube application.

We strongly encourage you to create a decube read-only user for this credential purpose, which you can follow here.

Security Concerns

If access to your database is protected by security measures, we allow for connecting via SSH Tunneling or you could whitelist our IP. See more here.

Custom User for decube

A custom user would allow for a granular configuration of the user on your database and your connection to decube.

1. Create the user, and change host and password accordingly.

CREATE USER 'decube'@'<host>' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';

1. Grant access to the decube user. Here table can be * if you're using decube to observe the whole database. For only a few tables, you'll have to run this command multiple times changing the table value.

GRANT SELECT ON <database>.<table> TO 'decube'@'<host>';

Use your own SSL CA Cert

Upload SSL CA File

If your database enforces SSL connection, you can provide your own CA Cert file by choosing Use Customer CA Certand uploading a CA Cert.

This works for AWS RDS Aurora MySQL instances as well. To see where to retrieve your Aurora certificates, please use this guide from AWS