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Analytic Tools

Audience: Data Owners and Users

Content Summary: This section includes recommendations on how to integrate Immuta into your current data workflow, as well as tool-specific guidance for connecting to Immuta's PostgreSQL Query Engine.

Overview

Analytic tools can retrieve policy-protected data through two methods:

  1. Immuta's PostgreSQL Query Engine
  2. Native Access Patterns

Using Immuta's PostgreSQL Query Engine, the backing database can be of many different forms, data users can benefit from knowing exactly how Immuta translates a data request into a policy-compliant result set. This best practices for the PostgreSQL access pattern offers guidance on getting optimal performance from your databases and tools.

Some tools require special considerations for setup or the sharing of data artifacts. The resources below offer additional guidance for connecting a small selection of tools to the Immuta Query Engine and can also serve as a starting place for working with similar software.