Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Application
Application
Application
Application
Framework
User Profiles
External Sources
Authentication/
Authorization
Query Transformation
Personalization
Display
Subscriptions
Feeds
Web Results
Other Apps
User Management Layer
Text Analytics
Search Engine
Metadata
Thesaurus
Clustering
Ontology Support
Semantic Processing
Entity Extraction
Relavancy
Indexing
Faceting
Tagging
Taxonomy
Collaboration
Converting
Crawling
Processing Layer
InfoSphere
BigInsights
or Hadoop
RDBMS
Feeds
Web 2.0
Email
Streams
CRM
ERP
File Systems
Connector Framework
Figure 7-1
Data Explorer architecture
content management repositories, CRM systems, wikis, email archives, supply
chain management stores, and more. There are also connectors to InfoSphere
Streams and InfoSphere BigInsights, showing the deep integration of its com-
ponents in the IBM Big Data platform. If you have a data source for which a
connector doesn't exist, don't worry; Data Explorer also includes a mature
framework for building additional connectors to proprietary data sources.
The Connector Framework taps into supported data sources to process
data for indexing. We want to clearly state that Data Explorer doesn't
manage
information in the data sources; it just maintains an index of the available
content for searching, navigation, and visualization.