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| 1 | +# Landscape2 guide |
| 2 | +# Reference: https://github.com/cncf/landscape2/blob/main/docs/config/guide.yml |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +categories: |
| 5 | + - category: "Definition" |
| 6 | + content: | |
| 7 | + How data is described. Anything that gives meaning to bytes — contracts, products, schemas, |
| 8 | + service interfaces, and semantic models. |
| 9 | +
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| 10 | + subcategories: |
| 11 | + - subcategory: "API Interfaces" |
| 12 | + content: | |
| 13 | + Specifications that describe the surface of an API: REST (OpenAPI), event-driven |
| 14 | + (AsyncAPI), graph (GraphQL), RPC (gRPC). ODCS sits here too, as the contract layer |
| 15 | + on top of data products. |
| 16 | +
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| 17 | + - subcategory: "Data Products" |
| 18 | + content: | |
| 19 | + Standards for describing a data product as a deployable, ownable unit: ports, |
| 20 | + terms, owners, and dependencies. Multiple competing specs (ODPS, ODPSpec, DPDS, |
| 21 | + DPROD) reflect different communities — pick the one that fits your stack. |
| 22 | +
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| 23 | + - subcategory: "Schema" |
| 24 | + content: | |
| 25 | + The schema languages that describe shape, types, and constraints. Range from |
| 26 | + XML's XSD through JSON Schema to Avro and Protobuf for binary encodings. |
| 27 | +
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| 28 | + - subcategory: "Semantics" |
| 29 | + content: | |
| 30 | + Vocabularies for meaning, not structure. Mostly RDF/OWL-based today (DCAT, SKOS, |
| 31 | + SHACL), with the new OSI specification pushing for a YAML-friendly alternative. |
| 32 | +
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| 33 | + - category: "Storage" |
| 34 | + content: | |
| 35 | + Where data lives. File formats, table formats, and storage systems. |
| 36 | +
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| 37 | + subcategories: |
| 38 | + - subcategory: "File Formats" |
| 39 | + content: | |
| 40 | + The on-disk representations: CSV, JSON, XML for text; Parquet, Avro, ORC for |
| 41 | + column-store and binary. |
| 42 | +
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| 43 | + - subcategory: "Open Table Formats" |
| 44 | + content: | |
| 45 | + Layered above object storage: Iceberg, Delta, and Hudi each add ACID semantics, |
| 46 | + time travel, and schema evolution. Iceberg has become the de-facto winner for |
| 47 | + most new architectures. |
| 48 | +
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| 49 | + - subcategory: "Storage Systems" |
| 50 | + content: | |
| 51 | + The underlying storage substrate. S3 has effectively become the standard |
| 52 | + object-storage interface; HDFS remains relevant in legacy installations. |
| 53 | +
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| 54 | + - category: "Movement" |
| 55 | + content: | |
| 56 | + How data flows between systems — connectivity, messaging, transfer, and in-memory |
| 57 | + formats. |
| 58 | +
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| 59 | + subcategories: |
| 60 | + - subcategory: "Database Connectivity" |
| 61 | + content: | |
| 62 | + JDBC and ODBC are the row-oriented incumbents; ADBC is the Arrow-native |
| 63 | + columnar successor. |
| 64 | +
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| 65 | + - subcategory: "Interconnection" |
| 66 | + content: | |
| 67 | + The protocols beneath everything else: HTTP for the synchronous web, |
| 68 | + ZeroMQ for low-latency in-process and cross-process messaging. |
| 69 | +
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| 70 | + - subcategory: "Messaging" |
| 71 | + content: | |
| 72 | + Asynchronous, broker-mediated message exchange. Kafka has won the |
| 73 | + high-throughput log market; AMQP remains the open queue protocol of record. |
| 74 | +
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| 75 | + - subcategory: "File Transfer" |
| 76 | + content: | |
| 77 | + Unsexy but unavoidable: FTP and SFTP still drive many regulated B2B |
| 78 | + data exchanges. |
| 79 | +
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| 80 | + - subcategory: "In-Memory Format" |
| 81 | + content: | |
| 82 | + Apache Arrow is the connective tissue of modern analytics: a language-agnostic |
| 83 | + columnar memory layout enabling zero-copy interchange across engines. |
| 84 | +
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| 85 | + - subcategory: "DataFrame API" |
| 86 | + content: | |
| 87 | + The DataFrame as a portable interface: Spark, pandas, and Ibis all expose |
| 88 | + one, increasingly compatible across engines. |
| 89 | +
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| 90 | + - subcategory: "Data Interchange" |
| 91 | + content: | |
| 92 | + Wire-format encodings for moving structured data between processes. |
| 93 | +
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| 94 | + - category: "Discovery" |
| 95 | + content: | |
| 96 | + How data is found and traced — catalog APIs and lineage standards. |
| 97 | +
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| 98 | + subcategories: |
| 99 | + - subcategory: "Catalog APIs" |
| 100 | + content: | |
| 101 | + Iceberg REST Catalog, Unity Catalog, Hive Metastore, and DuckLake compete for |
| 102 | + the role of "the catalog" in a lakehouse architecture. Expect convergence over |
| 103 | + the next few years. |
| 104 | +
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| 105 | + - subcategory: "Lineage" |
| 106 | + content: | |
| 107 | + OpenLineage is the open standard for emitting and consuming lineage events, |
| 108 | + including column-level lineage. The runtime counterpart to design-time data |
| 109 | + contracts. |
| 110 | +
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| 111 | + - category: "Operations" |
| 112 | + content: | |
| 113 | + How data is queried, observed, and governed. |
| 114 | +
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| 115 | + subcategories: |
| 116 | + - subcategory: "Query" |
| 117 | + content: | |
| 118 | + SQL — still the universal query language, defined by ISO/IEC 9075. |
| 119 | +
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| 120 | + - subcategory: "Data Quality" |
| 121 | + content: | |
| 122 | + Vendor-driven open-source: dbt, Great Expectations, and SodaCL each ship |
| 123 | + a YAML-flavoured DSL for declaring quality checks. |
| 124 | +
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| 125 | + - subcategory: "Observability" |
| 126 | + content: | |
| 127 | + OpenTelemetry for runtime traces, metrics, and logs; OORS (emerging) for |
| 128 | + publishing data-quality and contract-check results in a portable format. |
| 129 | +
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| 130 | + - subcategory: "Policies" |
| 131 | + content: | |
| 132 | + OPA (Open Policy Agent) decouples policy decisions from services. In a data |
| 133 | + mesh, it shows up at the federated-governance enforcement boundary. |
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