Data Platform: An Architecture for Modern Data Teams
The Arkham Data Platform is an integrated suite of services designed to provide a robust, scalable foundation for the entire data lifecycle. It provides builders with a clear, prescriptive path for ingesting data from any source, transforming it into high-quality assets, and serving it to downstream analytics and AI applications.
This architecture is designed to abstract away the complexity of cloud infrastructure, enforce data quality, and accelerate development, allowing your teams to focus on creating value, not managing infrastructure.
End-to-End Data Flow
The diagram below illustrates the complete data journey within the Arkham platform, from raw source data to production-ready insights. Each component is designed to work in concert, providing a seamless and governed workflow.
How the Architecture Works
Our platform provides a structured workflow that guides you from raw data to valuable assets:
- Automated Ingestion: You start with Data Connectors, our library of pre-built integrations. You configure them through a simple UI to reliably ingest raw data from your source systems into the Bronze layer of the Lakehouse.
- Reliable Transformation: The Pipeline Builder, is your tool for all transformations. You build declarative pipelines that clean, conform, and aggregate data, moving it from the Bronze to the Silver layer, and finally into Gold tables. Because these transformations are executed on our Data Lakehouse foundation, every operation is transactional, ensuring your data pipelines are robust and your data is consistent.
- Progressive Data Quality: This workflow naturally implements the Medallion Architecture. Data quality and structure improve at each stage, so you can trust the assets in your Gold layer are clean, validated, and ready for use.
- Discovery and Governance: The entire Lakehouse is automatically indexed by the Data Catalog. This provides a single place to discover datasets, explore schemas, track lineage, and manage access controls, ensuring your data is both accessible and secure.
- Consumption: High-quality data in the Gold and Silver layers becomes the fuel for all your downstream applications, from the integrated AI Platform to external BI tools.
This prescriptive architecture ensures that your data workflows are scalable, reliable, and easy to manage, enabling your teams to build faster and with higher confidence.
Core Capabilities
Dive deeper into the core components of the Arkham Data Platform:
- Data Connectors: Automate data ingestion from any source.
- Data Lakehouse: Understand our unified data storage and transaction engine.
- Medallion Architecture: Learn our methodology for structuring and refining data.
- Pipeline Builder: Discover how to build declarative data transformation pipelines.
