Records

Records are the fundamental units of data in the Oracle Endeca Server. Almost all information that is consumed by the Oracle Endeca Server, including raw data and the data schema, is represented by records.

In the context of applications powered by the Oracle Endeca Server, the following types of records are discussed:

Record type	Description
Source records	Source records represent the data that is input into the application powered by the Oracle Endeca Server, for each data domain. Source records in a variety of formats are supported.
Data records	In most applications, you are primarily concerned with data records. Data records are the business records of your data domain that you want to explore using the front-end application.
System records	System records represent the records schema in the Oracle Endeca Server data files. They are created in the Oracle Endeca Server using the schema from the primordial records. You use these records for data modeling — changing these records controls the behavior of your records schema and thus affects your data model.
Primordial records	Primordial records are created automatically and used internally by the Oracle Endeca Server. They represent the most basic infrastructure of the data model.