The Denodo Platform 5.0 (best described as a Data Virtualization and Enterprise Data Services Platform) is a data virtualization solution provided by the company of the same name.
Essentially, any data virtualization platform does four things:
- It virtualizes your data—it makes all relevant data sources, including databases, various application environments, web and unstructured content appear as if they were in one place so that you can access that data as such.
- It abstracts your data—that is to say, it presents the data to relevant applications in a consistent fashion regardless of any native structure and syntax that may be in use in the underlying data sources.
- It federates your data—it allows you to pull data together from diverse, heterogeneous sources and present that in a holistic manner, while maintaining appropriate security measures and quality of service.
- It presents your data in a preferred use-specific format to the front-end application either through relational views (via SQL) or by means of data (web) services of various types.