What is a DatumNode Data Services Platform
The DatumNode Data Services Platform offers a platform for creating, deploying and maintaining data services. For consumers, data services are represented as web-services or WCF services.
The DatumNode Data Services Platform frees developers from writing plumbing codes for creating a data services layer, offering them a graphical user interface instead. The Platform offers a centralized security mechanism for authentication and authorization, for working with different data sources.
By using DatumNode Data Services Platform, application developers and system administrators have a suitable tool for the centralized monitoring of every operation with the data, gathering statistics, applying security and caching policies.
Development of applications on Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft .NET is dramatically simplified by using code generation, which offers access to different data sources at one click. Applications use a single entry point for interaction with the data services layer.
Architecture
A key component of the DatumNode Data Services Platform is DatumNode Service, built on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
DatumNode Service: processes request, checks security policies, generates WSDL, gathers statistics and logs operations.
DatumNode Metabase: centralized storage of all information used by the DatumNode Data Services Platform: data services, data sources, security roles, logs and statistics. DatumNode Metabase is stored in RDBMS (Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server).
DatumNode Explorer: GUI tool for creating, deploying and managing data services, monitoring operations, managing logs and statistics, applying security and caching policies.
Data Security
DatumNode Data Services Platform offers a single role based mechanism for authorization and authentication while working with different data sources. Each user can be assigned roles and security rights, associated with them. Security rights can be applied to data services, methods, parameters and data sources. DatumNode Explorer offers GUI for managing security rights.The security mechanism can be based either on local users and Windows groups or Microsoft Active Directory, or on any external role-based provider (for example, RDMBS).
Performance monitoring and logging.
DatumNode Data Services Data Platform gathers statistics and logs operations with data services. DatumNode Explorer is a s suitable tool for developers and systems administrators for performance monitoring, searching of bottlenecks and error handling.
