Search facilities

The Search Console works with either of these search facilities:

  • The metadata query engine

    This facility is integrated with HCP and is also used by the metadata query API, which is a programmatic interface for querying namespaces.

  • The Hitachi Data Discovery Suite search facility

    This facility interacts with Data Discovery Suite, which performs searches and returns results to the HCP Search Console. Data Discovery Suite is a separate product from HCP.

    This book covers aspects of Data Discovery Suite that are specific to HCP.

Only one search facility can be selected for use with the Search Console at any given time. This facility, called the active search facility, is selected at the HCP system level. If no search facility is selected, the HCP system does not support searching namespaces.