What is a Node?
A Node is a real-world concept that you want to capture in Galaxy. At an organizational level, Nodes represent the entities that are most important to your business.
- Person
- Customer
- Order
- Product
- Invoice
- Employee
- Deal
- Document
Representing Data as Nodes
Your connected Sources contain raw data, and a Project structures that raw data as Nodes and Edges. For example:
Every node in Galaxy includes several layers of information:
1
Label
Ex: John Smith
2
Node Type
Ex: Customer
3
Description
Ex: John Smith is a customer at XYZ Corp and the primary contact associated with their Galaxy enterprise subscription.
4
Properties
Ex: For a Customer node, attributes might include email, signup date, status, region.
5
Provenance
This is how we map back to your sources.