Terminology
Glossary of terms for PipeRider
Config file
A YAML file is located at .piperider/config.yml and used for storing project configuration such as available data sources and dbt integration settings. Generated by piperider init.
See also Project Structure.
Connector
Also known as data source connector.
Enables PipeRider to connect to a variety of data sources, such as SQLite, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, etc.
Types of connector and data source integrations:
Credentials file
A YAML file located at .piperider/credentials.yml that is used for storing credentials used by connectors to connect to data sources.
See also Project Structure.
Compare reports
Capability to compare the output of runs in a static HTML page.
See also Compare Reports.
Data quality
It is a perception or an assessment of data's fitness to serve its purpose in a given context.
Data source
Provides a standard API for accessing and interacting with data from a wide variety of source systems, such as SQLite, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, etc.
Metrics
In dbt, you can define metrics, which are an aggregation over a table and can be used to display the most important metrics (e.g. weekly active users, total revenue).
Profiling run
The act of generating metrics and recommended assertions from a data source. The execution of a run over a time period is to generate profiling results for each run at .piperider/outputs/.
See also Project Structure.
Report
A static HTML report that is generated based on the results of a profiling run and is stored in .piperider/outputs/.
See also Project Structure and Generate Report.
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