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Trillium Control Center

Product type
Software
Portfolio
Verify
Product family
Trillium
Product
Trillium > Trillium Discovery
Version
Latest
Language
English
Product name
Trillium Quality and Discovery
Title
Trillium Control Center
Copyright
2024
First publish date
2008
Last updated
2024-10-18
Published on
2024-10-18T15:02:04.502478

Trillium can profile data from a variety of heterogeneous sources, and each data source uses unique terminology. To enable you to more easily compare data and relationships across a variety of sources, Trillium uses the standard terms defined below for all data sources. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with these definitions before you start to work with projects.

This table lists terms that you will encounter as you use Trillium.

Term Description
attribute Depending on the structure of the data source, an attribute might represent a column or a field.
dependency Data relationship in which one or more attributes determine the value of another attribute.
dynamic entity An entity that is linked to an external data source and is not imported into a repository. See real entity.
entity File or table associated with a data source. See also real entity.
finding Documented results of a data discovery activity.
join Intersection of identical or related data across two or more entities.
key Attribute that uniquely identifies and associates data within an entity, binding the data together.
repository Object that contains the data and metadata on which you perform data discovery and data quality activities.
metadata Statistics and properties associated with a repository object.
project Object that you create to reference a set of data and the data quality activities you perform. It includes information about metadata and workflow tasks.
real entity An entity in which the data is loaded into the repository. See also dynamic entity.
repository server Collection of one or more repositories. It has its own group of users, loader connections, and security and performance settings.
row A data record that is associated with a specific entity.
schema A file that describes the shape of your input or output data.