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Datastores Overview

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

  • Traditional RDBMS.
  • Raw files (CSV, XLSX, JSON, Avro, Parquet) on:
    • AWS S3.
    • Azure Blob Storage.
    • 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 a source datastore:

  1. In the main menu, select Datastores tab
  2. Click on Add Source 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

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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:

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

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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.

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Heatmap view

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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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