Understanding Co-Located Data

One of the most powerful benefits of SAS LASR Analytic Server is the ability to read data in parallel from a co-located data provider. In this configuration, the SAS LASR Analytic Server software is installed on the same hardware as the data provider. The currently supported data providers are as follows:

SAS Visual Data Builder excels at accessing data from a variety of data sources, performing analytic data preparation, and then staging the prepared data with a co-located data provider. Once the data is staged, the server can load the data to memory for exploration with SAS Visual Analytics Explorer.

The SAS Deployment Wizard registers a default library for the SAS LASR Analytic Server and one for the co-located data provider. For the third-party vendor products, the default library name and location are as follows: