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Gravity Portal

What is Gravity Portal?​

Gravity Portal is a software platform designed to replace Gravity CLI. Taking user experience into account, gravity portal allows users to create data pipelines and data products from scratch, all through easy-to-use graphical interface.

What is Gravity and how does it work?​

Gravity is a platform as a service (PaaS) software that induces efficient data orchestration between data sources and services. It leverages NATs Jetstream and data-mesh infrastructure to lay out dedicated pipelines that replaces traditional ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) while sustaining high availability and lightning fast data processing speeds.

What is a Data Product?​

A data product is a packaged data asset designed to deliver value by leveraging the advantages of a data mesh infrastructure. In Gravity, data products utilize NATS JetStream to efficiently read data from various sources, transform and repackage it into the desired format, and then output it accordingly.

How to create a Data Product?​

  1. Go to the Data Product section and click Add New.
  2. Enter the Name and Description.
  3. Select the Gravity Cluster for the data product.
  4. In the Database dropdown, choose the database and table to import data from.
  5. Click Scan Table to detect and display available columns.
  6. Select the columns to include. Assign a Partition Key for each column to serve as a primary key and for data partitioning.
  7. Click Done to finalize.

The data product will be created automatically.

How do I create a Subscription?​

  1. Go to the Subscription section and click Add New.
  2. Enter the subscription Name and Description.
  3. Select the desired Data Product(s) from the table.
  4. Choose a time interval:
  • Deprecative: Specify a start and end date.
  • Permanent: No end date.
  1. Note: The smallest supported interval is 30 minutes.

Save to activate the subscription.

How do I instantiate a Data Pipeline?​

  1. Go to the Data Flow section and click Add New.
  2. Enter the Data Pipeline Name and Description.
  3. Select the Gravity Cluster for deployment.
  4. Choose an existing subscription to customize.
  5. Click Done to finalize.

What is Atomic and what does it do?​

Atomic is a JavaScript based ETL tool tailored to Gravity that provides an easy-to-use interface allowing users to drag and pull different modules around to satisfy their business needs.

How do I access my Atomic pipeline?​

  1. Go to the data pipeline section
  2. Select which atomic you'd like to edit
  3. Click onto the little blue button or select details to access the selected atomic pipeline.

How do I connect to my database?​

  1. Go to Database section, select "Add new" to create a new database connection.
  2. Enter database connection information, including account, passsword, etc.
  3. Click "Test Connection" upon completion.
  4. Click done if connection test came out successful.