# Datastores Overview Source: https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/overview/ Datastores are the foundation of data quality management in Qualytics. A datastore represents a connection to your data, whether it's a relational database (JDBC), a distributed file system (DFS), or a cloud storage service. In this section you will find: - **Source**: Learn the fundamentals (JDBC and DFS), set up connections, browse supported connectors, use multi-schema creation, and add, edit, or delete datastores. - **Enrichment**: Link a datastore to an enrichment destination so scan results, source record examples, remediation snapshots, and exports are written to your own infrastructure. - **Data Quality Score**: Configure the decay period and dimension weights to measure and track the health of your data over time. - **Grouping**: Organize datastores into custom groups by environment, team, domain, or priority for easier navigation in the tree view. - **Data Catalog Links**: See how a datastore links to its asset in a connected data catalog, correct the link, and run a scoped synchronization. - **Lineage**: See which datastores feed this one and which it feeds, all of its containers that have lineage, and what a change would affect. - **Tags**: Assign tags to datastores to categorize, filter operations by tag, and influence quality score weighting. - **Tips & Tricks**: Discover right-click options and keyboard shortcuts to navigate and manage datastores faster. --- ## Source ### Understanding - **Getting Started** Understand what a datastore is, the architecture behind it, and how to get started. [Getting Started](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/overview-of-a-datastore/) - **JDBC** Connect relational databases using JDBC connectors like PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Oracle, and more. [Understanding JDBC](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/jdbc/overview-of-a-jdbc-datastore/) - **DFS** Connect distributed file systems like Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Google Cloud Storage. [Understanding DFS](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/dfs/overview-of-a-dfs-datastore/) ### Connections - **Connection Introduction** Learn what connections are, their role in datastore setup, and key concepts. [Introduction](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/connection/introduction/) - **How Connections Work** Connection lifecycle, authentication methods, secrets management, and network requirements. [How It Works](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/connection/how-it-works/) - **Available Connectors** Browse the full list of supported JDBC and DFS connectors. [View Connectors](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/connection/available-datastore-connectors/) ### Multiple-Schema - **Multiple-Schema Introduction** Discover and onboard multiple schemas from a single connection in one step. [Introduction](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/multi-schema/overview/) - **How Multi-Schema Works** Schema discovery flow, name templates, catalog/schema hierarchy, and validation. [How It Works](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/multi-schema/how-it-works/) - **Supported Connectors (Multi-Schema)** Which connectors support multi-schema discovery and their catalog/schema mappings. [Supported Connectors](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/multi-schema/supported-connectors/) - **Multi-Schema Permissions** Roles and team permissions required for multi-schema creation and validation. [Permissions](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/multi-schema/permissions/) - **Multi-Schema FAQ** Connectors, enrichment linking, naming, batch limits, and troubleshooting. [FAQ](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/multi-schema/faq/) ### How-tos - **Add with New Connection** Create a new source datastore by setting up a new connection from scratch. [New Connection](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/how-tos/add-new-source-datastore/) - **Add with Existing Connection** Create a new source datastore by reusing credentials from an existing connection. [Existing Connection](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/how-tos/existing-connection/) - **Edit Datastore** Modify your datastore's connection scope, teams, or other properties. [Edit](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/how-tos/edit-datastore/) - **Delete Datastore** Remove a datastore from Qualytics. The physical data stays in your infrastructure. [Delete](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/how-tos/delete-datastore/) - **Datastore API** Create, update, delete, bulk create, link enrichment, and manage datastores programmatically. [API](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/api/) - **Datastore FAQ** Connections, creating, managing, enrichment, operations, and troubleshooting. [FAQ](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/datastore/faq/) --- ## Enrichment - **Getting Started** How enrichment datastores receive outputs, with pages covering both the source and destination sides. [Getting Started](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/getting-started/) ### Deep Dive - **Introduction** Why link a destination, what each operation writes, and the side effects of linking. [Introduction](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/introduction/) - **How It Works** Settings, what happens after each write, display names, lineage, last write, and unlinking. [How It Works](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/how-it-works/) - **Enrichment Purposes** The seven purposes, where the badge appears, and what a written container shows. [Purposes](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/purposes/) - **Enrichment Outputs** Physical names and columns of the Scan, Remediation, and Materialize outputs. [Enrichment Outputs](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/tables/) - **Export Outputs** The four export outputs, their columns, and how to unpack their JSON fields. [Export Outputs](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/export-tables/) - **Schema Changelog** Column changes to the written outputs, by platform version. [Schema Changelog](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/schema-changelog/) - **Permissions** Roles and team permissions for linking, editing settings, unlinking, and working inside a destination. [Permissions](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/permissions/) ### How-tos - **Link an Enrichment Destination** Link an existing datastore as the destination, or create one from inside the dialog. [Link](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/how-tos/link-enrichment/) - **Link on Datastore Creation** Link or create the destination in the second step of the Add Datastore page. [Link on Creation](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/how-tos/link-during-creation/) - **Unlink an Enrichment Destination** Remove the link from a datastore. [Unlink](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/how-tos/unlink-enrichment/) - **View the Relationship Diagram** See how the written outputs join each other, from the destination's How-tos panel. [Relationship Diagram](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/how-tos/view-relationship-diagram/) ### Reference - **Supported Connectors** Which connectors a destination can live on. [Supported Connectors](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/supported-connectors/) - **Enrichment API** Link, unlink, change settings, create a destination, and read written outputs programmatically. [API](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/api/) - **Enrichment FAQ** Where destinations live in the tree, what the badges mean, missing last writes, renamed outputs, and the automatic profile. [FAQ](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/faq/) --- ## Data Quality Score - **Getting Started** Overview of quality scores, dimensions, settings, weighting, and all how-to pages. [Getting Started](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-quality-score/getting-started/) - **Introduction** Score hierarchy, the 8 dimensions, decay period, weights, independent settings, and recalculations. [Introduction](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-quality-score/deep-dive/introduction/) - **Permissions** Roles and team permissions for viewing scores and editing settings. [Permissions](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-quality-score/deep-dive/permissions/) - **Settings** Configure decay period and dimension weights for your datastore. [Settings](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-quality-score/how-tos/quality-score-settings/) - **Quality Score API** Retrieve and update score settings and access historical score snapshots. [API](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-quality-score/api/) - **Quality Score FAQ** Baseline, dimensions, decay, independent settings, troubleshooting, and more. [FAQ](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-quality-score/faq/) --- ## Grouping - **Getting Started** Overview of datastore grouping, permissions, and all how-to pages. [Getting Started](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/grouping/getting-started/) - **Introduction** How groups work, key characteristics, favorites interaction, and best practices. [Introduction](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/grouping/deep-dive/introduction/) - **Permissions** Two permission layers for group management and datastore assignment. [Permissions](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/grouping/deep-dive/permissions/) - **Create a Group** Create a new datastore group with a custom name and icon. [Create](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/grouping/how-tos/create-a-group/) - **Edit a Group** Rename a group or change its icon. [Edit](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/grouping/how-tos/edit-a-group/) - **Delete a Group** Remove a group. Datastores in the group become ungrouped. [Delete](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/grouping/how-tos/delete-a-group/) - **Assign a Datastore to a Group** Assign a datastore to an existing group from the tree view. [Assign to Group](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/grouping/how-tos/assign-a-datastore/) - **Unassign a Datastore from a Group** Unassign a datastore from its current group. The datastore moves to the ungrouped list at the bottom of the tree. [Unassign](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/grouping/how-tos/unassign-a-datastore/) - **Filter by Group** Filter the Datastores listing page to show only datastores in specific groups. [Filter by Group](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/grouping/how-tos/filter-by-group/) - **Grouping API** Create, update, delete groups and assign/unassign datastores programmatically. [API](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/grouping/api/) - **Grouping FAQ** Groups vs tags, favorites, permissions, limits, filter behavior, and more. [FAQ](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/grouping/faq/) --- ## Data Catalog Links - **Getting Started** How datastores link to assets in connected data catalogs, and everything in this section. [Getting Started](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/getting-started/) - **Introduction** What Data Catalog Links are, where they apply, and which datastores offer them. [Introduction](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/deep-dive/introduction/) - **How It Works** Manual and automatic links, anchoring, and what relinking changes. [How It Works](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/deep-dive/how-it-works/) - **Synchronization** What Pull and Push exchange, and the datastore-scoped sync next to the integration-wide one. [Synchronization](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/deep-dive/synchronization/) - **Permissions** The team permission and roles behind viewing, linking, and synchronizing. [Permissions](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/deep-dive/permissions/) - **Link Asset** Link a datastore to its counterpart asset, by search or by pasting the asset's URL. [Link Asset](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/how-tos/link-asset/) - **Change Asset** Point the link at a different catalog asset. [Change Asset](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/how-tos/change-asset/) - **Unlink Asset** Remove a manual link and hand the match back to the automatic synchronization. [Unlink Asset](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/how-tos/unlink-asset/) - **Link Another Catalog** Link the same datastore in one more connected catalog. [Link Another Catalog](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/how-tos/link-another-catalog/) - **Sync a Catalog** Start a synchronization scoped to the datastore, straight from the dialog. [Sync a Catalog](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/how-tos/sync-catalog/) - **API** Read, set, and clear catalog links programmatically, search catalog assets, and start scoped syncs. [API](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/api/) - **FAQ** Common questions about availability, manual links, unlinking, and synchronization. [FAQ](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/data-catalog-links/faq/) --- ## Lineage - **Getting Started** How lineage traces data between containers and datastores, and everything in this section. [Getting Started](https://userguide.qualytics.io/lineage/getting-started/) - **Datastore-level Lineage** The datastore's Lineage tab: the map of the datastores it exchanges data with, and all of its containers that have lineage. [Datastore-level Lineage](https://userguide.qualytics.io/lineage/deep-dive/datastore-level-lineage/) - **Impact Analysis** What a container feeds and what feeds it, ranked across a datastore and exportable as CSV. [Impact Analysis](https://userguide.qualytics.io/lineage/deep-dive/impact-analysis/) --- ## Tags - **Getting Started** Overview of datastore tags, permissions, and all how-to pages. [Getting Started](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/getting-started/) - **Introduction** Tag inheritance, operation filtering, quality score impact, and weight modifiers. [Introduction](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/deep-dive/introduction/) - **Permissions** Roles and team permissions for viewing, assigning, and unassigning tags. [Permissions](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/deep-dive/permissions/) - **Assign a Tag** Assign an existing tag to a datastore from the tree view footer. [Assign](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/how-tos/assign-tags/) - **Unassign a Tag** Remove a tag from a datastore without deleting the tag itself. [Unassign](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/how-tos/unassign-tags/) - **Tags API** Assign, unassign, and query tags on datastores via the datastore update endpoint. [API](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/api/) - **Tags FAQ** Inheritance, permissions, weight modifiers, storage, re-linking, and troubleshooting. [FAQ](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/faq/) --- ## Tips & Tricks - **Right Click Options** Quick actions available via right-click on datastores in the tree view, listing, and breadcrumb. [Right Click Options](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tips-and-tricks/right-click-options/) - **Keyboard Shortcuts** Speed up common datastore actions with keyboard shortcuts and the Command Bar. [Keyboard Shortcuts](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tips-and-tricks/keyboard-shortcuts/) *Last updated: October 17, 2026.*