Deployment modes and features

Product description

Dataphin is an intelligent engine for building big data platforms. It integrates products, technologies, and methodologies to provide end-to-end, intelligent data development and governance services, including data import, standard definition, modeling and R&D, asset management, and data services.

Benefits

Dataphin Shared Mode (Fully Managed Edition)

Dataphin abstracts the differences between various compute and storage environments, helping you quickly import and structure data according to standards. Standardized modeling lets you automate data development, create an entity-centric tag system, accumulate business knowledge and data assets, and address data governance challenges.

• Unified data standards: Dataphin uses dimensional and fact modeling theory to standardize dimensions, dimension attributes, business processes, and metric fields. This approach ensures the quality of your data assets and eliminates ambiguity in metric definitions.

• Automated code generation:

  • Efficient and automated coding: Based on a functional philosophy, Dataphin defines common data computing logic as modular components. You can freely combine these components to build statistical metrics, enabling self-service modeling and R&D. The system then automatically generates and executes code for data production.

  • Intelligent compute optimization: Dataphin lets you perform logical modeling from a business perspective. After you publish a logical model, the system automatically handles the physical modeling and code generation, reducing reliance on developers' technical skills.

• One-stop development experience: Complete the entire data lifecycle, including data import, modeling and R&D, O&M, data search, and exploration, all on a single, unified platform for an efficient development experience.

• Systematic data catalog creation: By leveraging standardized modeling and automated metadata extraction, Dataphin systematically builds a business-oriented data catalog. This creates a comprehensive data asset map, making data easy to discover and apply.

• Efficient data retrieval: Dataphin builds a knowledge graph from your metadata and business data to enable fast, intelligent searches for data tables and specific data points.

• Visualized data assets: Dataphin systematically generates a visual map of your business data assets. This map reconstructs business processes from a data perspective, helping you quickly identify critical business components and their corresponding data.

• Simple and reliable data access: Topic-based data query services let you quickly access the logical data tables created during development, simplifying query code by up to 80%.

Dataphin also helps you build your data ecosystem more efficiently and at a lower cost:

• Improved efficiency: Dataphin provides an end-to-end, one-stop suite of intelligent tools for data development and governance, lowering the technical barrier. Developers of all skill levels can perform self-service ETL to quickly meet business demands. The OneData (OneModel, OneID, OneService) methodology lets you abstract models and metrics, automate code generation, and automatically aggregate data into thematic services.

• Reduced costs: Dataphin uses metadata and intelligent algorithms to automate the creation of both physical and logical data layers. It also analyzes the entire data asset pipeline to optimize compute and storage resources, reducing overall costs for data production and consumption.

Available regions

China site: China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Beijing), and China (Chengdu).

Versions and features

Different versions support different feature modules. For more information, see Features supported in Shared Mode.

Dataphin Exclusive Mode (Semi-managed Edition)

Dataphin Exclusive Mode (Semi-managed Edition) includes all the benefits of the shared mode, plus the following advantages:

• One-stop deployment: Purchase the Dataphin product and the required underlying resources in a single step. The deployment process is automated, fast, and convenient.

• High security: The Dataphin product and the required resources are deployed in your own VPC, ensuring your data remains secure and compliant.

• Scalability: You have the flexibility to schedule version upgrades and the scaling of underlying resources to align with your business strategy.

• Diverse engine support: Dataphin supports a wide range of compute engines to meet diverse data processing needs. Supported engines include MaxCompute, Hadoop, AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL, and Databricks. The Hadoop compute engine family includes E-MapReduce 3.x, E-MapReduce 5.x, CDH 5.x, CDH 6.x, FusionInsight 8.x, AsiaInfo DP 5.3, Cloudera Data Platform 7.x, Lindorm (compute engine), Huawei MRS, and DTBase Easy MR.

Available regions

• China site:

  • China: China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), China (Wuhan-Local Region), China (Chengdu), and China (Hong Kong).

  • Asia Pacific: Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), and Thailand (Bangkok).

  • Europe & Americas: US (Virginia), UK (London), and Germany (Frankfurt).

  • Middle East & India: UAE (Dubai).

• International site: China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Guangzhou), China (Beijing), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Chengdu), China (Hong Kong), Japan (Tokyo), Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta), US (Virginia), and Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur).

Versions and features

The product features available for the international regions on the China site are identical to those of the Dataphin Exclusive Mode (Semi-managed Edition). For more information, see Features supported in Exclusive Mode.