Welcome to FeatureBase help
FeatureBase Help contains high level overviews of software functionality, plus procedural documentation for FeatureBase Cloud and the self-managed Community edition.
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What is FeatureBase?
FeatureBase is a feature-oriented database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads. Similar to the evolution of data formats from row-oriented to columnar, FeatureBase further evolves columnar into a feature-oriented format that makes each distinct data value individually addressable (accessible, readable, writable and retrievable).
FeatureBase is similar to a columnar store, but breaks each column into each of its unique values so that they can be represented as a single bit. This data representation is excellent for a variety of analytical workloads.
Our novel approach minimizes I/O on queries by allowing the database engine to read and write exactly the data it needs and intelligently compress that data in memory. The result is a step-function improvement in analytical workloads.
Before you begin
Comparing Cloud and Community editions
These tables provided a side-by-side comparison of Cloud and Community functionality.
Infrastructure
| Feature | Cloud | Community | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud deployment | Community installation | |
| Regional Deployment | No | Yes | |
| Automated Scale Up/Down | No | No | |
| Automated Scale In/Out | No | No |
Data Ingestion
| Feature | Cloud | Community |
|---|---|---|
| Streaming (HTTPS) | Yes | Yes |
| Kafka (Pull-based) | Client-side kafka consumption & push | Kafka ingestion |
| Database (Pull-based) | Client-side SQL consumption & push | SQL ingestion |
| CSV/Bulk Ingest | Yes | CSV ingestion |
Data Consumption
| Feature | Cloud | Community | Further information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Query UI | Query cloud tables | Query community tables | |
| FeatureBase SQL - HTTPS | Yes | Yes | Any language/tool (Python, Go, etc) that can read over HTTPS |
| FeatureBase PQL - HTTPS | Yes | Yes | Any language/tool (Python, Go, etc) that can read over HTTPS |
| gRPC Endpoint | No | Community gRPC endpoint | |
| Pilosa Query Language (PQL) Query Builder | No | Yes | Learn about PQL |
| Python Client | Python client library | Python client library | |
| Grafana Plug-In | No | Community grafana connector | |
| Postgres Lookup Database Option | No | Yes |
Operations
| Feature | Cloud | Community |
|---|---|---|
| Backup and Restore | Yes | Community backup and restore |
| Data Replication | Yes | Yes |
| Metrics & Monitoring | Cloud metrics | Community metrics & monitoring |
| Editable FeatureBase Config File | No | Yes |
Security
| Feature | Cloud | Community | Further information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Encryption In Flight | Yes | Yes | |
| Encryption at Rest | Yes | Yes | |
| Authentication + Authorization (OAuth) | Yes | Community authentication | |
| Role-Based Access Control (Basic) | Cloud user roles | Yes | |
| User Management | Cloud user management | Yes | |
| Audit Logging | Yes | Yes |
How do I set up FeatureBase Cloud?
Follow these instructions which will guide you through the setup process:
How do I install FeatureBase Community?
Follow these instructions to learn about system requirements and how to install FeatureBase on your operating system.