Data Mining Servers

The Viabl.ai Platform performs the data mining process via a dedicated Data Mining Server. This is a web service also acts as a conduit to a database which holds the actual data to mine.

Once your Data Mining Server is set up, your Viabl.ai Platform Admin will use it's URL/IP address to configure your User Group's access to it.

A special menu option Data Mining Portal (which can be accessed from the Home screen) provides you with a user interface to this server to perform data mining table management (including the option to upload your data in csv format).

The advantage of using a dedicated Data mining server are...

• Database Security: The database is not exposed to network and as the supported calls are all specific data mining operations, arbitrary SQL can never be executed.
• Data Security: The actual data stored in the database is never transported across the network. Data mining works on aggregated data statistics, not the individual records.
• Network Traffic Optimization: Instead of transferring the data to be analysed from the server to the client (see data security), only the required aggregates are transferred across the network. This reduces network traffic by an order of magnitude and enhances security.
• Database Access Efficiency: The aggregates required for data mining can (on the whole) be provided by a single SQL statement. This optimization (as opposed to retrieving ALL the records and then computing the aggregates) allows us to take full advantage of modern database engines and architectures.