Overview

Compass has three major concept when it comes to data ingestion: Asset, Type, and Service.

Asset is the main model that represents a metadata of a specific service with a specific type.

Type defines a ‘type’ of an asset and it is pre-defined. Compass currently supports the following types:

1. table
2. job
3. dashboard
4. topic
5. feature_table
6. model (under development)
7. application (under development)

Service defines the application or source that maintains or generates the asset. Examples would be biquery, postgres, etc.

Some features that compass has:

• Discovery
• Lineage
• Asset Tagging
• User
• Discussion
• Starring

Discussion

Compass supports discussion feature. User could drop comments in each discussion. Currently, there are three types of discussions issues, open ended, and question and answer. Depending on the type, the discussion could have multiple possible states. In the current version, all types only have two states: open and closed. A newly created discussion will always be assign an open state. More detail about Discussion.

Starring

Compass allows a user to stars an asset. This bookmarking functionality is introduced to increase the speed of a user to get information. There is also an API to see which users star an asset (stargazers). More detail about Starring.