Catalog icons

The 18 catalog icons in Data Engineering, described

Compactioncompaction

Compaction — a thousand small files merged into one, crumbs into a loaf.

Data cataloguedata-catalog

A data catalogue — an inventory of what data there is and where it lives.

Data ownerdata-owner

A data owner — the steward responsible for a table or a dataset.

Data tagdata-tag

A data tag — a label on a column or a table that classifies what it holds.

Delta tabledelta-table

A Delta table — a lakehouse table that remembers every change as a version.

Foreign keyforeign-key

A foreign key — a column that references a row in another table.

Governancegovernance

Data governance — the rules, policies and controls the data has to follow.

Icebergiceberg-table

An Iceberg table — most of the table's metadata sits under the waterline, an open table format.

Indexindex

An index — a record of what is where so items can be found and looked up quickly.

Indexindex-db

A database index — the B-tree lookup that makes a query fast.

Lineagelineage

Lineage — where this data came from, and what was derived from it.

Metadata storemetadata-store

A metadata store — what is known about the data, its schema and registry.

Parquetparquet

Parquet — the columnar file format that stores data by column, not by row.

Provenanceprovenance

Provenance — the whole story of where something came from, its chain of origin.

Tabletable

A table — rows and columns with names across the top, data in a grid.

Treemaptreemap

A frame divided into uneven tiles — a treemap sized by how much each part holds.

Window functionwindow-function

A bracket spanning two of four rows — a window function over neighbouring rows.

Z-orderz-order

A Z traced through the grid — z-order clustering that keeps nearby rows together.

In code, each is one import — import { Compaction } from "@iconmind/react/icons/compaction" — and the same name in Vue, Svelte, Solid, Preact, React Native, Astro, Blade and Flutter.

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