Data Catalog

OCI Data Catalog is a managed data discovery and governance service for technical, business, and operational metadata. This subject area enables tracking data catalogs, including lifecycle, tenancy, compartment, region, and creation activity attributes.

Business Questions

The subject area can answer the following business questions:

  • How many data catalogs exist by tenancy, compartment, or region?
  • How has the data catalog count changed over time?
  • Which catalogs are active or in another lifecycle state?
  • Which compartments contain the largest number of catalogs?

Logical Model

The model centers on Fact - Data Catalog and joins to data catalog, compartment, date, region, and tenancy dimensions.


The Data Catalog fact table is connected to dimension tables.

Metric Details

Metric Details for Data Catalog
Fact Folder Metric Definition
Data Catalog Data Catalog Catalog Count COUNT metric from Fact - Data Catalog.