Data Federation Deployment: Getting Started

Installing and starting a grid domain controller, the first server in a Data Federation domain, takes only a few minutes. Your Sybase deployment architect will help you plan for and deploy additional servers if you need them.

Setting up user accounts is easy—you can create them in the Data Federation domain or import them from an NIS or LDAP-based directory service. After configuring Data Federation servers and user accounts, your next steps are provisioning and integration.

Provisioning

When you’re ready to bring data resources into your Data Federation domain, the provisioning tools in the web UI and in WorkSpace Data Federation walk you through the process of creating database operations (SQL queries or stored procedure calls), sharing file data, and provisioning web services for easy access.

Integration

WorkSpace Data Federation provides a set of drag-and-drop graphical tools you can use to design data flows and set up data services for integration. Even complex flows with many operations are simple to create. You can pull in data from multiple database, HTTP, and file sources, and combine and transform the data using a set of predefined operators such as aggregate, projection, group by, multiplexer, and iterator—or define your own operators.

You can also use WorkSpace Data Federation to work with metadata models. You can use metadata models to ensure that new data services you create conform to a particular schema. Metadata models also let you create Data Federation objects like data services that match database tables not only in schema but in name, so you can easily access the Data Federation objects using the same applications you now use to access database tables.

You can even perform some provisioning tasks from within WorkSpace Data Federation, such as defining database connectors and database operations.