Today, organizations are facing massive growth in data, and there’s an increasing need to be able to organize and manage that data in a logical way that facilitates more targeted and efficient use and governance.
organizations are shifting from traditional IT centric data architectures, where the data is governed and managed centrally, to more federated models organized according to business needs.
This federated data architecture is called data mesh.
A data mesh is a decentralized data architecture that organizes data by specific business domains, such as marketing, sales, human resources, etc.
Microsoft Fabric’s data mesh architecture primarily supports organizing data into domains and enabling data consumers to be able to filter and find content by domain.
Future releases will enable federated governance, which means that some of the governance currently controlled at the tenant level will move to domain-level control, enabling each business unit/department to define its own rules and restrictions according to its specific business needs
In Fabric, a domain is a way of logically grouping together all the data in an organization that is relevant to a particular area or field.
One of the most common uses for domains is to group data by business department, making it possible for departments to manage their data according to their specific regulations, restrictions, and needs.
To group data into domains, workspaces are associated with domains.
When a workspace is associated with a domain, all the items in the workspace are also associated with the domain, and they receive a domain attribute as part of their metadata.
During the Fabric public preview, the association of workspaces and the items included within them with domains primarily enables a better consumption experience.
For instance, in the One Lake data hub, users can filter content by domain in order find content that is relevant to them.
•Going forward, capabilities for managing and governing data at the domain level will be added.
Domain image
To create a domain:
To unassign a workspace in the Workspaces in this domain section, hover over the workspace entry and select the unassign icon that appears.
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