WhamTech Products
SmartData Fabric® consists of a number of technology products, most of which are open-source and some proprietary, but the core is based on External Index and Query (EIQ) Products™
EIQ Products™ are superior federated data adapters, sub-middleware and add-ons, accessed through standard drivers, APIs and SQL, and designed for near real-time data virtualization, federation, integration and interoperability. These products are intended to accommodate almost any data management situation, architecture and solution, including multiple disparate federated data source access and integration, Master Data Management (MDM), reporting, Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics.
Most data management-based solutions have conventionally depended on either (a) submitting queries to, and being 100% dependent on, data sources, or (b) copying data to databases/data lakes, data warehouses and/or data marts. EIQ Products™ offer a true alternative virtual data warehouse/mart that is a hybrid combination of conventional federated data access, ETL to a data warehouse and enterprise search. Even conventional data warehouse-only attributes of backup and archives can be accommodated by EIQ Products™-based solutions.
CURRENT EIQ PRODUCTS
EIQ Adapters™
WhamTech offers two basic types of adapters: EIQ Indexed Adapters™ and EIQ ConventionalAdapters™, and a third combination of these as EIQ Hybrid Adapters™. EIQ Indexed Adapters on their own, or part of EIQ Hybrid Adapters, offer significant advantages over conventional federated data adapters and are at the core of SmartData Fabric value proposition.
EIQ Federation Servers™
Sub-middleware that provides multiple levels of federation, virtual data integration, sharing and interoperability and query management that distributes queries to, and consolidate results from, multiple EIQ Adapters and/or other EIQ Federation Servers.
AVAILABLE ADD-ONS
Data Security Layer (DSL)
Add-on for advanced (basic included) data masking, tokenization and encryption, indexes and/or packet encryption over and above SSL.
Master Data Management (MDM)/Master Patient Index (MPI)
This is an add-on for that can be used with all EIQ Adapters. MDM/MPI is essential to almost any and all data-based solutions by enabling building and maintaining key entity views such as single customer/patient, drug, product and organization 360-degree views, used for building and maintaining APIs, data and business objects, and for interoperability, reporting, BI and analytics. MDM/MPI effectively enables virtual data warehouses/marts, as it replaces the need for ETL from operational data sources/lakes to physical data warehouses/marts.
HadoopEIQ™ HDFS Smart Connector
WhamTech developed a Hadoop connector that enabled EIQ Indexed Adapters to externally and independently index and query Hadoop data, providing relational SQL access to, but leave the data stored in Hadoop. No reliance on Hadoop for any query processing and Hadoop data can be combined with other data sources. Other non-Hadoop cloud storage connectors can be developed.
Mainframe Data File (MDF) Smart Connector
This is an add-on for all EIQ Adapters™.