Roadmap Tracking Issue - EPIC

[jqnatividad]

OVERALL VISION: To increase the utility and performance of the CKAN Datastore:

• by enriching resources, so that right after a file is pushed by DP+, it does a lot of data-wrangling tasks that are typically done manually:
  • a lot of metadata is inferred, so the Data Publisher does not have to laboriously enter it in
  • descriptive statistics are computed, allowing the Data Publisher and the end-user to better understand the resource
  • location information is automatically normalized and geocoded
  • related datasets/resources are automatically inferred
  • auto-tagging
• by taking advantage of PostgreSQL native features
  • also use it as a Document Database leveraging JSONB?
  • partitioning/sharding?
• by tapping into the rich PostgreSQL extensions ecosystem (in particular - PostGIS, Timescale, Citus, CartoDB, Apache Age and ZomboDB)
• give it "Data Lake"-like capabilities
• enable Datastore API users to issue performant, reliable SQL queries

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• Convert DP+ to a CKAN extension #98
• Advanced Data Dictionary #18
• Automatic deduplication #11
• Auto-tagging
• Automatic spatial extent calculation
• Automatic processing/recognition of whitelisted common column names (e.g. latitude, longitude, status, open date, closed date, etc.)
• Semi-automatic creation of indices based on cardinality of column values (exposed through Advanced Data Dictionary) #53
• Smart preview selection (e.g. preview first n rows; latest rows; sample) #47
• Scanning for Personally Identifiable Information #27
• Automatic CKAN Alias creation #9
• Auto partitioning
• Per resource Datapusher+ job configuration #60
• Deferred datapush on initial package creation to allow per package Datapusher+ Configuration
• Validation using qsv schema and validate commands #87
• Optimized data type mapping to PostgreSQL data types (for speed/reduced storage/efficiency) #17
• Enabling record-level search
• Container image #8
• affiliated CKAN Service Provider jobs - "DataGroomers" that are meant to periodically groom datastore data #13
• Datapusher+ Management Console for Orgadmins/Sysadmins #54
• Create a proper package install #10
• Smart date inferencing #19
• Smart auto-indexing #30
• Native PostGIS support
• Native time-series support with Timescale
• Fast upsert mode #34
• Recoverable jobs #35
• Better downloading of resources #46

[jqnatividad]

With the 2.x revamp, will need to update this to reflect major changes.