Data services are designed to build a uniform data service bus to help enterprises increase the value of their data assets as well as guarantee data reliability, security, and effectiveness. Data services are applicable to the following scenarios:
Minimize data exposure: Assume that you need to export data to external environments. In this case, you can create APIs for your callers to export the data of a specific row or column to external environments. To export data of a specific row, your callers can specify filter conditions in SQL statements. To export data of a specific column, your callers can specify the fields that allow queries. Compared with data export of a whole table, this minimizes data exposure and ensures data security.
Connect visualization tools to databases: APIs can be called to connect most visualization tools to databases. Instead of requiring a username and a password to connect a visualization tool to your database, you can provide APIs to visualization tools. This is an easier way of data sourcing and avoids account exposure.
Provide processed data for applications: After data is processed and summarized by using a data development tool, APIs can be defined and provided for applications to read and use processed data. If the logic of data reading needs to be modified, users only need to modify the query logic for the corresponding API and do not need to republish the application.
API Gateway can integrate with the following Alibaba Cloud services to provide data services: