Glossary

Daemon

Daemon's are the workhorses in Mycelial. The Mycelial daemon is a small binary, written in Rust, that is responsible for pulling data from sources and/or pushing data to destinations. You typically install the daemon near the source/destination, using our CLI.

Connector

A connector is a specific implementation of a data source or destination. For example, the Postgres connector is a specific implementation of a Postgres data source or destination.

Control Plane

The Mycelial control plane is a server that defines and orchestrates data workflow jobs. You can either install the control plane on one of your servers, using our CLI or you can use our cloud-based control plane (coming soon).

Workflow

A workflow is a combination of the source and destination data systems. A workflow is essentially a job that moves data from the source to the destination data system. The workflow is created either in the control planes Web interface or via API calls.

Command Line Interface (CLI) Application

Mycelial maintains a CLI that assists you in setting up and using Mycelial. After downloading and installing the CLI, you can run the application to do things like: Download the daemon and control plane, Configure data sources and destinations, Start and stop the daemon and control plane, install the daemon as a service and more.

Source

A source is a specific database, or file from which you wish to sync your data. Some examples of sources are: Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and MS Excel.

Destination

A destination is a specific data sink that receives data without transmitting it. Some examples of destinations are: Postgres, Snowflake and Redshift.