Peliqan use cases
Peliqan helps in a wide range of data-centric use cases:- Connecting to data: DBs, DWs, SaaS business applications
- Set up ETL pipelines to the built-in data warehouse or your own data warehouse
- Ad hoc analysis: asking ad-hoc data questions and finding an answer fast
- Data visualization / BI
- Data preparation & transformation, making data ready for e.g. analysis or machine learning
- Combining data from multiple sources
- Data checks: e.g. find anomalies
- Working with data: e.g. keeping track of things, manual verifications etc.
- Building interactive data apps
- Custom reporting & report distribution
- Setting up business alerts
- Publishing data APIs
- Set up data syncs (reverse ETL)
- Data imports
Direct data access, data virtualization
In Peliqan you add connections to data sources such as databases and SaaS business applications. Peliqan will fetch the data in real-time from the source where possible, each time you access data to view it or work with it. This concept is also known as “data virtualization”. In some cases, e.g. with SaaS sources, Peliqan will make a copy of the data in its built-in data warehouse.Grid view interface to explore data
Data can be viewed and edited in a grid view, similar to a spreadsheet. Peliqan eliminates the need to make exports of your data that you dump into e.g. Excel, because data exports are not a repeatable process to work with data.SQL on anything
You can apply “SQL on anything” and write SQL queries that can be shared as new virtual tables (views) to business users. When the business user opens the table to view the data, the query will be executed in real-time. For the business user, it’s just another table with all the capabilities of Peliqan such as editing, filtering, using the table in their favorite BI tool etc.Data structure
Peliqan follows the structure of relational databases to organize data:- Connection
- Database
- Schema
- Table
- Columns
- Cells
Tables
Every table in Peliqan can be accessed via the Grid view interface, each table can be used in SQL queries and each table can be referenced and used in Data apps (see below). For example you could write an SQL query to join 2 tables. The result can be used by business users in the Grid view interface or a BI tool, it can be referenced in another SQL query and it can be consumed in a data app. Following table types exist in Peliqan:- Internal tables: created by the user in Peliqan
- External tables: tables from DB and DW connections (MySQL, Postgres, Snowflake, SQL Server etc.)
- Target tables: tables created by Peliqan in the data warehouse from an ETL pipeline (e.g. from a SaaS Source)
- Queries: SQL SELECT queries written in the Peliqan SQL editor
