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D s product supports different options for reading and writing data from your storage systems.

Base Storage Layer

The base storage layer is the datastore where

D s product

 uploads data, generates profiles, results, and samples. By default, job results are written on the base storage layer. You can configure the base storage layer and other required settings.

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Tip: The base storage layer must be a file-based system.

Uses of base storage layer

In general, all base storage layers provide similar capabilities for storing, creating, reading, and writing datasets.

The base storage layer enables you to perform the following functions:

1. Storing datasets: You can upload or store datasets in directories on the base storage layer. See below.
2. Creating datasets: You can read in from datasources stored in the storage layer. A source may be a single file or a folder of files. 
3. Storage of samples: Any samples that you generate are stored in the base storage layer.
4. Ingested data: Some data like Excel and PDF are stored as binary (non-text) files. These files must be read and converted to CSVs, which are stored on the base storage layer.

5. Cached data: You can enable a cache on the base storage layer, which allows data that has been ingested to remain on the base storage layer for a period of time. This cache allows for faster performance if you need to use the data at a later time. 

6. Writing Results: After you run the job, you can write the results to the storage layer.

Base storage layer directories

D s product

 creates and maintains the following directories and their sub-directories on the base storage layer: 

Minimum Permissions

D s product

 requires the following operating system level permissions on the listed directories and sub-directories: 

Available base storage layers

D s product

 supports the following base storage layers.

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NOTE: In some deployments, the base storage layer is pre-configured for you and cannot be modified. After the base storage layer has been defined, you cannot change it.

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NOTE: For all storage layers, the source data is untouched. Results are written to a location whenever a job is executed on a source dataset.

TFS

TFS is a S3-backed data storage service provided by 

D s company

 for importing, storing, sampling, and generating results. 

D s tfs

 is enabled as part of setting up your product. 

For more information, see Using TFS.

S3

Simple Storage Service (S3)  is an online data storage service provided by Amazon, which provides low-latency access through web services. For more information, see  https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ . 

For more information, see External S3 Connections.

Management of base storage layer

Maintenance of the base storage layer must be in accordance with your enterprise policies. 

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Unless the base storage layer is managed by D s company , it is the responsibility of the customer to maintain access and perform any required backups of data stored in the base storage layer.

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NOTE: Except for temporary files, the D s platform does not perform any cleanup of the base storage layer.

External Storage

You can create connections to external storage systems.  You can integrate

D s product

 with an external datastore. Depending on the type of connection and your permissions, the connection can be:

• read-only
• write-only
• read-write

You can create and edit connections between 

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 and external data stores. You can create either file-based or table-based connections to individual storage units, such as databases or buckets.  

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NOTE: In your environment, creation of connections may be limited to administrators only. For more information, contact your workspace administrator.

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Tip: Administrators can edit any public connection.

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NOTE: After you create a connection, you cannot change its connection type. You must delete the connection and start again.

For more information, see Connection Types.

File-based systems

In addition to the base storage layer, you may be able to connect to other file-based systems. For example, if your base storage layer is HDFS, you can also connect to S3.

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NOTE: If HDFS is specified as your base storage layer, you cannot publish to Redshift.

For more information, see Connection Types.

Cloud data warehouses

The

D s webapp

can be leveraged for loading and transforming data in data warehouses in the cloud. These integrations offer high performance access to reading in datasets from these and other sources, performing transformations, and writing results back to the data warehouse as needed.

Snowflake

Through AWS infrastructure, the

D s webapp

can integrate with your existing Snowflake data warehouse.

Additional configuration may be required:

For more information, see Snowflake Connections.

Redshift

When your base storage layer is S3, you can create connections to your Redshift data warehouse.

If you are using IAM roles, the IAM role for each user must include permissions to access Redshift. For more information, see Required AWS Account Permissions.

For more information, see Amazon Redshift Connections.

Relational systems

When you are working with relational data, you can configure the database connections after you have completed the platform configuration and have validated that it is working for locally uploaded files. 

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NOTE: Database connections cannot be deleted if their databases host imported datasets that are in use by  D s product . Remove these imported datasets before deleting the connection.

For more information, see Using Databases.

Management of external storage

To integrate with an external system, the 

D s webapp

 requires:

• Basic ability to connect to the hosting node of the external system through your network or cloud-based infrastructure
• Requisite permissions to support the browsing, reading and/or writing of data to the storage system
• A defined connection between the application and the storage system.

Except for cleanup of temporary files, the 

D s webapp

 does not maintain external storage systems.