GoodData.CN Introduction
GoodData.CN is a deployed solution with a powerful analytics engine, an efficient query language, and a resilient semantic data layer – all built with developers in mind. It is purpose-built to scale with microservices, and you can deploy it in containers next to your data warehouse.
GoodData.CN and GoodData.UI
GoodData.CN is an API-first product and comes with a comprehensive REST API that exposes all its functionality.
GoodData.UI builds on top of these REST APIs and encapsulates them in the Analytical Backend abstraction that exposes the analytical capabilities to UI components. GoodData.UI provides several packages that help communicate with GoodData.CN:
@gooddata/api-client-tigeris a low-level API client interfacing with the GoodData.CN REST APIs.@gooddata/sdk-backend-tigeris a library that implements the Analytical Backend abstraction on top of GoodData.CN.
All the React components of GoodData.UI are located in the packages prefixed with @gooddata/sdk-ui-. These packages use
exclusively the Analytical Backend abstraction and are thus separated from the implementation details of a specific backend.
A typical GoodData.UI application creates and configures an instance of the GoodData.CN Analytical Backend once and then uses this instance in all React components.
Get started with GoodData.CN
You can learn more about and download GoodData.CN Community Edition for free at https://www.gooddata.com/developers/. You can get started with GoodData.CN Community Edition in minutes and then spin up a new application on top of it using our accelerator toolkit.
IMPORTANT: Before you start, check how GoodData.UI supports specific versions of GoodData.CN. The first version of GoodData.UI that supports GoodData.CN is 8.3.0.