Domino provides features to ensure data integrity, versioning, security, and traceability inside the Domino platform. Domino Datasets provides high-performance, versioned, and structured filesystem storage in Domino. Domino Data Source connectors can also connect to external data sources like databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
Dataset owners can grant Domino users and groups access. Only authorized users can import and access a dataset. Additionally, a user’s actions on a dataset are determined by their Domino role. Dataset permissions can be used to control access to the data in GxP-compliant clinical studies. Permissions decide the datasets' blind / unblind state.
Learn more about Domino Datasets.
A Dataset always reflects the most recent version of the data. For reproducibility, you can create read-only snapshots of your Dataset at any moment in time. Data reproducibility requires versioning the contents of a Dataset so that you can ensure you are analyzing the same data.
Snapshots are read-only, immutable states of the Dataset. When you want to reproduce a training experiment, you can version a Domino Dataset to return to a specific version used in the past.
Learn more about versioning data in Domino with snapshots.
Domino data sources use Domino connectors to connect to external data stores such as Amazon S3 and Snowflakes. When creating a Domino data source, there are two methods of initializing credentials: service accounts and individual credentials. Service accounts allow for shared credentials, while individual credentials require each user to have their credentials in the external data source.
The Data Source owner or a Domino admin can grant access to the Data Source for specific users or organizations. Data sources with individual credentials will require every user to have their credentials for the external data source.
When multiple users collaborate on a project, a data source used by one user might not be properly configured for another. Domino will proactively surface such problems from the project’s Data page and the Data tab in Domino Workspaces.
Learn more about data source connectors and data source security and sharing.
Domino supports previews for the following SAS and Office formats, streamlining your data analysis and collaboration workflows: .sas7bdat, .rtf, .docx, .doc, .pptx, .ppt, .odt, .ods, .odp, and .odg. This minimizes downloading files and artifacts from Domino while keeping sensitive data inside the Domino platform.