What is a Datastore?

• A Datastore can be any Apache Spark-compatible data source, such as:

  1. Traditional RDBMS.
  2. Raw files (CSV, XLSX, JSON, Avro, Parquet) on:
     1. AWS S3.
     2. Azure Blob Storage.
     3. GCP Cloud Storage.

• A Datastore is a medium holding structured data. Qualytics supports Spark-compatible Datastores via the conceptual layers depicted below

  

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Configuration

• The first step of configuring a Qualytics instance is to Add New Datastore:

  • In the main menu, select Datastores tab

  • Click on Add New Datastore button:

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  • A datastore can be any Apache Spark-compatible data source:

    1. traditional RDBMS,
    2. raw files (CSV, XLSX, JSON, Avro, Parquet etc...) on :
       1. AWS S3.
       2. Azure Blob Storage.
       3. GCP Cloud Storage

  

Credentials

• Configuring a datastore will require you to enter configuration credentials dependent upon each datastore. Here is an example of a Snowflake datastore being added:

  

• When a datastore is added, it’ll be populated in the home screen along with other datastores:

  

• Clicking into a datastore will guide the user through the capabilities and operations of the platform.

When a user configures a datastore for the first time, they’ll see an empty Activity tab.

• Heatmap view

Running a Catalog of the Datastore

• The first operation of Catalog will automatically kick off. You can see this through the Activity tab.

  • This operation typically takes a short amount of time to complete.
  • After this is completed, they’ll need to run a Profile operation (under Run -> Profile) to generate metadata and infer data quality checks.

  

  

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Last update: September 29, 2023