Ascend Connection

An Ascend Connection specifies connections to external data sources, destinations, and any other external systems that Ascend needs access to. Profiles and Parameters allow you to have one Connection that can be used across multiple Environments to point to different resources without code changes. Connections are typically object storage (AWS S3, Azure blob, GCS), file servers (FTP/SFTP), databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server), and data warehouses (Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift).

Data Plane

An Ascend Data Plane is a special Connection that acts as the data storage & compute layer for a given Flow. A Flow can only use one Data Plane, but a a Project can have many Flows that run on many Data Planes enabling a data mesh architecture.

Supported Data Planes

Ascend supports Data Planes for:

• BigQuery
• Databricks
• Snowflake