Automated Discovery Space - Your Search Engine for Cross-System Data Asset Discovery

Find the Data You Need—Instantly and Accurately

Discovery Space in Cloudera Octopai is a high-performance search engine designed for data experts who need instant access to metadata, scripts, and stored procedures across multiple systems. Think of it as Google Search for your data ecosystem, enabling fast, context-aware queries that preserve the native structure, language, and formats of the harvested systems.

Key Capabilities of Discovery Space:

1. Comprehensive Metadata Indexing:

   • Discovery Space represents the full scope of harvested metadata, including:
     • Tables, columns, reports, and dashboards
     • ETL processes, scripts, stored procedures
     • Business logic and dependencies
   • The search engine operates across databases, BI tools, ETL platforms, and cloud environments, ensuring full visibility into your data landscape.

2. Intelligent Search for Precision:

   • Supports fuzzy and exact search parameters to narrow results efficiently, allowing users to locate relevant objects without manual filtering.
   • Queries are performed using an intelligent search engine that understands system-specific syntax and maintains the original context of the metadata.

3. Native Format & Terminology Preservation:

   • Unlike generic search tools, Discovery Space preserves the structure and terminology of each source system, ensuring that results align with the way data is defined and stored in its native environment.
   • This is critical for impact analysis, root cause investigations, and governance workflows, where context and accuracy are essential.

4. Downloadable Insights for Impact Analysis:

   • Discovery Space does not alter or annotate data, but instead enables users to download search results for further scoping and impact assessment.
   • These insights can be cross-referenced in Knowledge Hub, where additional documentation, collaboration, and governance processes can take place.

Optimized for Data Engineers, Analysts, and Governance Teams

With Discovery Space , data professionals can: Locate critical data assets instantly across complex, hybrid environments Analyze metadata dependencies to assess risks and change impacts Streamline investigations with precise, system-specific searches

Systems Section:

1. Search Box Searches for any value across the BI landscape
2. Advance Search Search values using AND / OR when it comes to a non-conclusive term or searching for more than one value
3. How Cloudera Octopai Searches the Value Hover over the tag to know how Cloudera Octopai searches the value

Detailed Level:

1. Column Filter Funnel Narrow down the search within a column
2. Export the list to Excel Use the information for your own purposes like pivot tables, workload & effort planning, etc.
3. Specific tool search Helps to search for a specific term within the open tool

Apply Filters on which Metadata Sources you wish to apply the discovery function: