Data Storage
Panopticon’s default behavior when connecting to data is often referred to as direct connection, meaning that data is loaded directly from the source and held as an in-memory cache by the Panopticon server. The data is not written on the disk and not persisted when the user session ends.
The exception to this rule is when data is loaded from any type of file. In this case, the file is uploaded to the Panopticon server and persisted on disk in a binary format within the Data Table or the Workbook where the data connector was used. Such data will be persisted between user sessions and will not update unless a manual re-upload of the file is effectuated.
Optionally, Panopticon can be configured to use a third-party database for persisting data on disk, which means that the Panopticon Data Store feature is enabled. All data connectors except streaming connectors can be configured to deposit data into the Data Store, thereby making it an on-disk persisted dataset, which can be refreshed from the original source both manually ad-hoc or as a scheduled task. For more information, see section Importing to Data Store.
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