RED HAT JBOSS DATA VIRTUALIZATION

Your data, your way, at your business speed

DATASHEET

BENEFITS Data is the raw material of business — an economic input almost on par with capital and labor.
• More efficient and However, data in most organizations is scattered across multiple operational and analytical systems.
broader utilization of Big data with new sources, such as social media, cloud applications, and syndicated data services
all enterprise data are on the rise, and many organizations are realizing that physical consolidation or replication of
data is not practical for all data integration and business agility needs. Data needs to be made easily
• Better control and security
consumable by people who need it to advance the business.
of information
• Greater agility, faster
time to solution DATA CONSUMERS
• Improved organizational Business intelligence tools Mobile and enterprise Enterprise service bus (ESB), Service-oriented architecture
and analytical applications applications extract transform load (ETL) (SOA) applications and portals
productivity
• Improved IT efficiency
• Reduced development,
maintenance, and
hardware costs
• Increased return on Design tools
data assets (ROA) Standards-based data provisioning
DATA VIRTUALIZATION

CONSUME JDBC, ODBC, SOAP, REST, OData

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RED HAT® JBOSS®

FEATURES
• Provides standards-based
Unified virtual database/Common data model Optimization
read/write access to heteroge-
neous data stores in real time COMPOSE Unified Unified Unified
customer view product view supplier view
Caching
• Speeds application
development and integration
by simplifying access to Security
distributed data CONNECT Standards-based data connectivity

• Transforms data structure Metadata

and semantics through
data virtualization
• Consolidates data into a
“single view” without the
need to copy any data
• Provides centralized access NoSQL Hadoop Databases and Mainframe Enterprise Excel, CSV SaaS and cloud
data warehouse applications or XML files applications
control, and auditing through
robust security infrastructure DATA SOURCES
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WHAT’S NEW UNLOCK THE FULL POTENTIAL OF ALL YOUR DATA WITH LEAN
DATA INTEGRATION
BIG DATA INTEGRATION
Red Hat® JBoss® Data Virtualization is a lean data integration solution that provides easy, real-time,
• Hadoop integration with
and unified data access across disparate sources to multiple applications and users. JBoss Data
Hive and Impala support
Virtualization makes data spread across physically distinct systems — such as multiple databases,
• NoSQL database connectivity XML files, and even Hadoop systems — appear as a set of tables in a local database. This comprehen-
with full read/write access for sive platform enables agile data provisioning by providing the following functions:
Mongo DB, JBoss Data Grid,
• Connect: Access data from multiple heterogeneous data sources with different access methods
and Cassendra
and storage models.
• Apache Solr
• Compose: Easily create reusable, business-friendly data models and virtual unified views by
search integration
combining and transforming data from multiple sources.

CLOUD READY • Consume: Make integrated data available on demand for consumption by external apps through
• Available as part of open standards interfaces.
OpenShift Online with JBoss Data Virtualization software implements all three steps internally, hiding all the complexities
simplified web development of the true location of the data or the mechanisms required to access or merge it, thus making it
UI (developer preview) very easy for developers and users to work with data.
• Cloud deployment on
DELIVER KEY I.T. INITIATIVES WITH AGILITY
Amazon EC2 and Google
Compute Engine The simplicity offered by JBoss Data Virtualization enables users to acquire actionable, unified
information when they want, in the way they want, at the speed their businesses need. This leads to
• Salesforce.com bulk enlightened business execution and easy adaptation to changing business demands. Combined with
API support for very ease of development, JBoss Data Virtualization supports a range of IT projects and initiatives.
large datasets
Self-service business intelligence (BI): The virtual, reusable data model provides a business-friendly
PRODUCTIVITY representation of data, allowing the user to interact with data without having to know the complexi-
AND DEPLOYMENT ties of the database or where the data is stored, and allowing multiple BI tools to acquire data from a
OPTIMIZATIONS centralized data layer.
• Security audit log dashboard
Unified 360° view: The virtual data model delivers a complete view of master and transactional data
for complete view of data
in real time. The virtual data layer serves as a unified, enterprise-wide view of business information
access activities
that improves a user’s ability to understand and use enterprise data.
• Rapid development for custom
Agile service-oriented architecture (SOA) data services: A data virtualization layer delivers the
data source connectivity
data services layer to SOA applications. JBoss Data Virtualization speeds both the creation of virtual
• Azul Zing JVM support for data stores — without the need to touch underlying sources — and the creation of data services that
high-performance computing encapsulate the data access logic. Data virtualization also allows multiple business services to
acquire data from a centralized data layer and provides loose coupling between business services
• Query performance
and physical data sources.
enhancement with
dependent joins pushdown Improved information control: Data virtualization layers provide data firewall functionality. JBoss
Data Virtualization improves data quality via centralized access control, robust security infrastruc-
• EAP 6.3 support for
ture, and reduction in physical copies of data, thus reducing risk. The metadata repository catalogs
enhanced patching
enterprise data stores and the relationships between the data in various data stores, enabling trans-
parency and visibility.

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SUPPORTED DATA Big data and cloud data integration: Data virtualization provides a rapid virtual integration approach
SOURCES that doesn’t require replication of already “big” data sources. Many organizations are adopting
cloud computing where each new cloud source must be integrated with the existing IT environment.
ENTERPRISE RDBMS
Data virtualization solves this problem, allowing enterprises to maintain a complete view of internal
• Oracle and external information while taking advantage of attractive cloud economics.
• IBM DB2
TRANSFORM INTO ENLIGHTENED BUSINESS
• Microsoft SQL Server Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization is a must-have for organizations seeking:
• Sybase ASE Profitability growth and risk reduction. JBoss Data Virtualization delivers unified and timely
• MySQL information to help your organization increase revenue, reduce costs, manage business risk, and
reduce compliance penalties.
• PostgreSQL
Agility and productivity boosts. Robust design and development environments let you respond
• Ingres faster to change and improve your staff’s effectiveness and efficiency and realize faster time
• Maria DB to value.

Optimization of existing IT investments. Data virtualization improves utilization of existing server

ENTERPRISE DATA and storage investments while reducing unnecessary data replication and the costs of duplication
WAREHOUSE
and associated infrastructure management.
• Teradata
KEY CAPABILITES AND FEATURES
• Netezza
MODEL-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
• Greenplum
JBoss Data Virtualization includes Teiid Designer, an Eclipse-based graphical tool, which models,
analyzes, integrates, and tests multiple data sources to produce relational, XML, and web service
BIG DATA
views that show business data without programming. You can map from data sources to target
• Apache Hadoop formats using a visual tool, as well as resolve semantic differences, create virtual data structures at
• HortonWorks a physical or logical level, and use declarative interfaces that are compatible with and optimized for
your applications.
• Cloudera
VIRTUAL DATABASE AS OPEN SEMANTIC MODEL
NOSQL The virtual database is the semantic layer that resides between an organization’s physical data
• Red Hat JBoss Data Grid sources and the user; it’s a unified business representation of distributed data sources. It allows
(Infinispan) the user to interact with data with limited knowledge about it. The virtual database is created using
familiar terminology to describe the business environment and allows the user to retrieve exactly
• MongoDB the necessary data. This virtual database is accessible through standards-based provisioning mech-
• Apache Cassandra anisms like SQL or web services, to any business intelligence tool or application.
(Tech preview) CENTRALIZED DATA SECURITY
JBoss Data Virtualization gives you the power to manage and monitor data services in a single
SEARCH
unified environment and enforce and manage policies and roles across federated data for all data
• Apache Solr services. You can configure policies for data security, privacy, column-level data masking, and
data sanitization of sensitive fields based on user roles. In addition to using the security capabili-
ENTERPRISE AND ties of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, the software supports web services security
CLOUD APPLICATIONS
and fine-grained access control for SQL data service and virtual table. In addition to column-level
• Salesforce.com security, you get row-level security at the virtualization layer, which is independent of data sources.
• SAP Transport and password encryption are available through SSL support.

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TECHNOLOGY SERVICE ENABLED DATA FOR SOA

CONNECTORS
A data service approach hides the complexity of diverse data sources from the applications, enables
• Flat files, XML files, the isolation of data-oriented logic in a data layer that is independent of applications, and renders
XML over HTTP the costly work of data transformation and integration much more valuable to the organization
• SOAP web services by making it more visible, reusable, and maintainable. Your IT team can build reusable logical data
objects based on business entities (e.g., CUSTOMER, PRODUCT, and ORDER) and insulate applica-
• REST web services tions from changes in data sources with a model-driven, standards-based data abstraction layer.
• OData services PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION
Advance caching: Support of several caching modes includes materialized views, result set caching,
OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY
and code table caching that provide dramatic performance improvement. Configurable time-to-live,
• Microsoft Excel memory preferences, and updatability options are available for data caching.
• Microsoft Access Query optimization: Intelligent and automated techniques (e.g., cost- and rule-based query opti-
• Google Spreadsheets mizer using information from source introspection, query capabilities, and constraints) include
pushdown queries, dependent joins, projection minimization, partitioned aware unions, and copy
• Apache POI for Excel criteria to optimize data sources join processing, and support for high-performance sub-queries.
Comprehensive query trace support with manual plan override of automatic strategy selections for
SPECIALTY DATA optimized query.
SOURCES
• ModeShape Repository METADATA REPOSITORY AND GOVERNANCE
The OASIS SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (S-RAMP) repository defines a common
• Mondrian
model for repositories and an interaction protocol to facilitate data sharing and use of common
• MetaMatrix tools. The metadata repository catalogs enterprise data sources and the relationships between the
data in various data stores, providing complete transparency and visibility. The repository supports
• LDAP
Atom/REST-based client interface and XPath 2-based query language and integration with Maven.

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