SpaceDeck
Overview
GigaSpaces SpaceDeck is an intuitive, streamlined user interface to manage and control the GigaSpaces environment.
Using SpaceDeck, you can define the tools to bring legacy System of Record (SoR) databases into the in-memory data grid that is the core of the GigaSpaces system.
SpaceDeck has the following advantages:
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No-code functionality – the environment can be set up and monitored using the user-friendly SpaceDeck screens, eliminating the need for writing or customizing code
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The ability for you to create and execute low-code SQL micro-services.
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A full complement of data and system monitoring tools.
SpaceDeck does not yet cover all functionality of our previous UIs. Refer to the Platform Feature Access page which explains which of our UIs manage each of our main platform operations. SpaceDeck is initially available as part of our Smart DIH Kubernetes installation.
SpaceDeck does not yet cover all functionality of our previous UIs. Refer to the Platform Feature Access page which explains which of our UIs manage each of our main platform operations. SpaceDeck is part of our Smart Cache and Smart DIH Kubernetes installations.
Main Screen
The SpaceDeck main screen is described below for Smart DIH and Smart Cache.
| # | Menu | Actions |
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| 1 | Administration |
For users who have an ADMIN security role, this leads to the Administration menus which consist of: |
| 2 | Management | Management section of SpaceDeck |
| 3 | Hosts | The menu can be used to monitor the health of the hosts to ensure that if limits are being reached, there is an opportunity to rearrange data or increase the amount of RAM or nodes |
| 4 | Spaces | |
| 5 | Data Sources | Choose which databases to import to the IMDG. These data sources will be used to configure the data pipeline |
| 6 | Data Pipeline |
Choose which tables and fields to use View dynamic metrics and start/stop the pipeline |
| 7 | Services |
Low-Code Data Service Create and execute |
| 8 | Data Queries | Perform SQL queries on the Space or pipeline data |
| 9 | Stream SQL | StreamSQL allows to SpaceDeck to implement a low code (SQL) approach to define and operate with ad-hoc data flows, such as read from Kafka and write directly to Space or read from one Kafka topic and write to another Kafka topic. |
| 10 | Exit SpaceDeck | Click this to exit SpaceDeck |
| # | Menu | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Administration |
For users who have an ADMIN security role, this leads to the Administration menus which consist of: |
| 2 | Management | Management section of SpaceDeck |
| 3 | Hosts | The menu can be used to monitor the health of the hosts to ensure that if limits are being reached, there is an opportunity to rearrange data or increase the amount of RAM or nodes |
| 4 | Spaces | |
| 5 | Data Queries | Perform SQL queries on the Space or pipeline data |
| 6 | Exit SpaceDeck | Click this to exit SpaceDeck |
Typical SpaceDeck Users
SpaceDeck can be used by various user types ("personas") as follows:
System Integrators – integrate data from Systems of Record into Smart DIH, using data pipelines
Data Engineers – study the data unified in a Space using data queries. Integrate data from Systems of Record into Smart DIH, using data pipelines
System Admins – manage day-to-day operations of the system; inspect and monitor its components
Getting Started
| Define/Modify/Monitor a Space | Define/Modify the Data Sources from the System or Record | Define/Modify/Monitor a Data Pipeline | Create and execute low-code data services | Perform SQL queries on Space/Pipeline data |
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| Deploy and undeploy Spaces – SpaceDeck – Spaces - Adding a Space |
Choose which databases to import into the in-memory data grid – SpaceDeck – Data Sources These data source will be used in the configuration of the data pipeline. |
Choose which tables and fields to use, and decide which Spaces will contain this data – SpaceDeck – Data Pipeline – Create New Pipeline | Create and execute low-code services: SpaceDeck – Services | Perform SQL queries – SpaceDeck – Data Query |
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View dynamic metrics - SpaceDeck – Spaces Status - Details |
View dynamic metrics and start/stop the pipeline – SpaceDeck – Data Pipelines – Details | |||
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This topic includes the following sections explaining all of SpaceDeck operations in the order they should be carried out in.
