Platform Support Guide ​

Yellowbrick has two editions — Community Edition and Enterprise Edition — and targets multiple supported platforms. Although most core database documentation is applicable to all platforms and editions, there are differences. This Platform Support Guide explains the differences and contains sections of documentation that may be pertinent to only one platform or edition.

When looking at shared documentation, at the top of each page of you'll find capsules listing the combinations of editions and platforms that the page in question applies to.

The current set of platforms and editions are documented below.

Yellowbrick Editions ​

Community Edition (CE)

A freely available version of Yellowbrick, for use on scale-up (single node) hardware instances, typically used for development or smaller data set sizes. Community Edition runs in both general container environments such as Docker as well as on optimized cloud instances. Some enterprise-class features are explicitly disabled. Community Edition is available on public clouds and Docker Hub. For more information, click here.

Enterprise Edition (EE)

The fully featured, scale-out version of Yellowbrick with enterprise support. Enterprise Edition runs on all Yellowbrick appliances, as well as all public and private cloud platforms. The database engine is identical between platforms, but the infrastructure and storage architecture are different, leading to some differences in system views, SQL utility statements and administration.

Yellowbrick Appliances ​

Tinman appliance (EE-APPLIANCE-TINMAN)

Tinman is Yellowbrick's first-generation appliance used in appliance platforms data centers. It is a blade server architecture using Intel Broadwell CPUs with integrated 56gbit active/passive dual port Inifiband backplane and integrated NVMe storage devices.

Andromeda appliance (EE-APPLIANCE-ANDROMEDA)

Andromeda is Yellowbrick's second-generation appliance used in appliance platforms data centers. It is also a blade server architecture using AMD EPYC CPUs with integrated 100gbit active/active dual port Infiniband backplane and removable NVMe storage devices.

Yellowbrick Cloud Platforms ​

Yellowbrick software supports numerous cloud platforms by running on top of Kubernetes. Currently supported cloud platforms are as folllows:

Amazon Web Services (EE-CLOUD-AWS)

Yellowbrick runs on top of EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Services), stores metadata and row-oriented data on EBS (Elastic Block Store) and columnar data on S3.

Microsoft Azure (EE-CLOUD-AZURE)

Yellowbrick runs on top of AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services), stores metadata and row-oriented data on Azure Disk Storage and columnar data on Azure Blob Storage.

Google Compute Platform (EE-CLOUD-GCP)

Yellowbrick runs on top of GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), stores metadata and row-oriented data on persistent disks, and columnar data on GCS (Google Cloud Storage).

Differences Between Appliance and Cloud Platforms ​

Both appliance platforms and cloud platforms use the same underlying database engine, that processes data using SQL in exactly the same way. The differences are in the following areas:

Differences Between Cloud EE and CE Platforms ​

Both CE and EE cloud platforms use the same underlying database engine, that processes data using SQL in exactly the same way. The differences are in the following areas: