Structural differences and limitations with the Spark SDK

Required license: Professional or Enterprise license.

Not available on Tonic Structural Cloud.

No automatic sensitivity scans

For a Spark SDK workspace, Structural does not automatically run sensitivity scans. You must run the sensitivity scan manually or set up scheduled sensitivity scans.

No workspace inheritance

Spark SDK workspaces do not support workspace inheritance.

Table mode limitations

You can only assign the De-Identify or Truncate table modes.

For Truncate mode, the table is ignored completely. The table does not exist in the destination database.

Generator limitations

Spark SDK workspaces only support the following generators:

• Address

• Categorical

• Character Scramble

• Company Name

• Constant

• Continuous

• Custom Categorical

• Date Truncation

• Email

• HIPAA Address

• Integer Key

• JSON Mask

• MAC Address

• Name

• Noise Generator

• Null

• Random Hash

• Random Integer

• Random UUID

• Regex Mask

• SSN

• Struct Mask

• Timestamp Shift Generator

• UUID Key

No subsetting

Spark SDK workspaces do not support subsetting.

No upsert

Spark SDK workspaces do not support upsert.

No output to a container repository

For Spark SDK workspaces, you cannot write the destination data to a container repository.