Platform - Sapling Data

Lightweight Cloud Based Application Development

Build and deploy applications in your browser
No software installs or command line necessary
Supports multiple programming/scripting languages and database technologies
Designed for big data applications

Integrated Data Analytics

Analyze data and build visualizations in your browser
Add scripting and coding for powerful data analysis and data manipulation
Integrate multiple database and data technologies into one platform
Combine development and analysis to build data oriented applications with powerful visualizations

Code = Model = Data

Let there be no boundaries between your application and your data

Cloud

Code

Data

Model

App

Config

Loki treats code, data models and configuration as data. Each application is packaged as a model containing data structure definitions, jobs, web services, UI, security definitions, seed data and everything needed to run and deploy the app. During the deployment and running of an application, the library and application models are combined and bound to cloud resources. These models enable the cloud OS to execute and distribute applications across the cloud. When an application starts, it boots into its models where it gets the information it needs to begin its work. The database schemas are created from the model. APIs are automatically generated from the model. UI and code is delivered from the model.

Data sets can be packaged as models as well, providing a seamless deployment of pre-packaged data into applications and different database technologies. Because of the power of Loki models, Data Sets can also contain code including functionality for defining processes and security and even a UI for use with the data. Focusing on data rather than computation allows applications built in Loki to utilize different kinds of programming languages, databases, execution environments, and deployment frameworks without becoming locked into any one technology. Loki is ideally suited for integrating data, applications and systems since it has facilities for discovering, describing, mapping and processing data.

Features

Cloud Resource Management

Coordinates access from your application to resources such as web-services, data storage, databases, and user authentication systems
Organizes applications into environments allowing boundaries of separation and interactivity to be well defined
Binds an application’s abstract model to resources to be used by a specific application instance
Works alongside your cloud platform and automation framework for the best-of-breed in cloud orchestration

User and System Security

User login with pluggable integration
User password services such as reset password
API key management with support for swapping between dev, production and other tiers
Secure database connectivity
Three security rings: user, app, and system

Instant APIs

Automatically builds APIs from your data model
Easy to configure field level API security
Includes web service APIs as well as program language bindings
Automatically handles data versioning, change messaging, and localization

Universal IDs

Universal IDs for accessing data, code and resources
Uses an innovative system of Uniform Resource Names (URNs) to access all data, code and resources
Allows for data and application models to be merged without conflict
Makes deploying standardized data sets easy

Data Versioning

Allows past versions of data to be stored and retrieved
Supports native versioning features of various storage technologies

Data Access and Mapping

Provides data access support for file systems, sql databases, search engines, zip files and more
Automatic data structure mapping between multiple paradigms such as relational (sql), object oriented, JSON, XML, and CSV
Allows new support for data access and data mapping to be plugged in
Supports structured and unstructured data
Allows for easy swapping of underlying data store technologies

Data Change Messaging

Alerts applications and processes to data changes in the system
Messages on changes to data, code and system configuration
Subscription based messaging

Powerful Application Modeling

Applications in Loki are packaged into models
Packages contain data structure definitions, jobs, web services, UI, security definitions and everything needed to run and deploy the app
Ability to combine models of multiple applications and libraries
Infer data structure from different sources
Ability to script the creation of data and application models

Integration Services

Designed to connect to 3rd party systems and web services
Extendable, pluggable integration services such as user login
Connection and password management for handling calls out to external web services
Fully customizable APIs

Text Localization

Natively stores localized data
Automatically retrieves localizations using a user’s language
Reduces complex application logic for handling localization
Keeps the data model simple while allowing for localization

Collaborative Analytics

You + Sapling + Loki

Fully hosted and supported with a dev team
at the ready

With Sapling’s expert team and the power of the Loki platform you get to start ahead in the game. Watch the progress as we build your applications in the cloud using the powerful Loki development tools, or jump in and help us code if you like. Loki’s collaborative development environment makes the decision to outsource or insource a false dichotomy.