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Supported and Unsupported Data Sources
Generally, Discovery supports TDV data sources that are tabular. That is, Discovery can discover relationships between physical tables and physical views but not in procedural objects or XML documents.
Supported data sources
Relational data sources—The tabular objects of relational sources including physical tables and views are supported.
LDAP data sources—Supported, because Discovery models LDAP data source content as physical tables.
Delimited files—Supported, because the content is tabular.
Adapters—Oracle EBS, Salesforce.com, and Siebel.
Unsupported data sources
Relational data sources—Procedural objects in relational sources are not supported. HP Neoview 2.3 and 2.4, IBM DB2 z/OS Version 8, and PostgreSQL.
Apache Hive/Hadoop
WSDL data sources—Not supported, because its content is procedural.
XML data sources—Not supported, because its content is not tabular.
Custom Java procedures—Not supported, because they are procedural.
Adapters—SAP and SAP BW.
See the TDV Installation and Upgrade Guide for a complete list of TDV-supported data sources.