ARLAS Exploration - Introduction
The full documentation of the ARLAS Exploration Solution built by the Gisaïa Team.
About
ARLAS Exploration is a solution that offers a modern and fluid Web Application for exploring your spatio-temporal BigData. The solution offers:
- A set of highly interactive & reusable analytic components
- A configurable web application that integrates all the analytic components within a single coherent view
- A stateless and lightweight server offering REST services for data analytics and OGC services for a high interoperability
- A tagging service for building sophisticated data sets
ARLAS Exploration relies on
- elasticsearch for its search and aggregation engine
- kafka for its messaging capabilities
What part of ARLAS Exploration should you use and how?
- If you want a comprehensive and clear perception of your geo spatial big data, then you will probably want to deploy the ARLAS Exploration Stack.
- If you want to create a geo-analytic web application, then you can develop your app with the ARLAS WUI Toolkit and deploy ARLAS Server on top of your elasticsearch.
- If you want to explore your elasticsearch content with a Geographical Information System, then you simply have to deploy ARLAS Server and access your data with the OGC services.
The ARLAS Exploration Stack
The stack is composed of
- a user web interface (ARLAS-WUI)
- a server for search and analytic services as well as OGC APIs (ARLAS Server)
- a server for tagging the data (ARLAS Tagger)
and it relies on
- a search/aggregation engine (Elasticsearch).
- a messaging broker (KAFKA)
Note
A third party API Management can be interposed between ARLAS-WUI and ARLAS Server for managing user authentication, authorization and partitionning.
Summary
The ARLAS Stack includes ARLAS-WUI (the web user interface), ARLAS Server and ARLAS Tagger (the analytic and tagging services) while the ARLAS WUI Components are the building bricks of ARLAS-WUI. ARLAS-WUI Toolkit is here to help you to develop your geo-analytic app in a couple of days.