Concepts¶
What is a Data Fabric
A data fabric is the zetaris way of stitching together diverse, disparate datasources and datasets across different plaforms (cloud, onpremise, edge etc) . The main components in a Fabric are :
Physcial Datasources
Are Non-Relational datasources based on physical files like csv,json or based on external RESTful API’s.
Logical Datasources
Logical datasources are traditional relational datasources.One can connect any remote database as a ogical datasource.
Data Fabric Builder
Is where we register all datasources and build data fabric
What is a Schema store
It is the repository of all relational schemas within datasources. It also enabe us to build relational logical views and datamarts on top of exsisting objects.
Schema Browser
Help you to navigate the schema store. Different objects within a schema store are :
Databases
Are databases build in lightning under the physcial datasource in data fabrics.
Datasources
Are the registered logical datasources in the data fabric
Data Marts
Data marts are the virtualised equivalent physical datamarts, where no physical copy is made for setting them up.
Views
Just like nomral views, with the adon that you can create create views across different datasource and cache them.