Getting Started with Yellowbrick
Welcome to the Getting Started Guide for Yellowbrick Data Warehouse!
What's New in Yellowbrick Version 6
Yellowbrick Data Warehouse runs natively in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), using a Cloud Data Warehouse Manager (CDWM) control plane built on Kubernetes. The data warehouse is provisioned with Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure hardware instances and provides a cloud-based SaaS platform for in-depth analysis of high volumes of data.
The Yellowbrick Manager GUI provides quick and simple access to the system. You can use this single web-based interface to:
- Provision and manage Yellowbrick instances within your deployment, setting limits and policies for hardware resources. You can use the auto-suspend feature to set an idle timeout value and manage the cost of resource consumption in the cloud.
- Create and manage one or more Yellowbrick clusters per instance, with flexibility for assigning workloads or specific queries to different hardware resources as needed. Databases are independent of clusters; work within a particular database can be attached to different clusters with adjustable hardware and WLM resources.
- Create and manage users and roles, databases, schemas, tables, and other database objects.
- Bulk load tables from object storage via the Load Assistant or a SQL command (LOAD TABLE). Loads from
parquet
files are supported, as well astext
andcsv
. - Run queries, create database objects, and monitor activity.
You can also connect to clusters using your own ODBC and JDBC applications and Yellowbrick ybtools
.
Prerequisites
- Yellowbrick Manager supports the current version and the last two public releases of the following browsers:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Edge
- Before loading your own data from object storage, make sure you have your AWS or Azure account credentials ready at hand.
- Be sure to install Version 6.3
ybtools
before using these tools to connect to Version 6.3 databases.
Additional Resources
- Videos to help you get started, available directly from Yellowbrick Manager.
- Sample data sets for load and query testing, available from the Query Editor in Yellowbrick Manager.
Yellowbrick Manager Profile
You may prefer running Yellowbrick Manager in "dark mode"; to switch from light to dark mode, go to the far-right "login" menu and select Profile.
A few other profile settings are also available.
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