Qlik Sense Architecture Basics

Joe Bickley, Product

Manager - Qlik Server

Marcus Spitzmiller, Master

Principal Enterprise
Architect
 Presenters
Joe Bickley
Senior Product Manager - Qlik Sense Platform
7 years @ Qlik
@QTJoeBickley

Marcus Spitzmiller
Master Principal Enterprise Architect
Focus on Enterprise Deployments, Best Practices,
Scalability, Performance, Security, Integration
7 years @ Qlik
@m_spitzmiller

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 Self-Service Delivery Patterns
Authoring Consumption

Core IT/BI Consume

Application
Author
Corporate
Consume

Web App
Core IT/BI Analyst

Publish
Personalize
Corporate Provision Author
Application
LOB

Authoring
Core IT/BI Analyst

Author
Corporate Provision Provision

LOB Data
 Enabling Delivery

Corporate

LOB
Personal

Data Layer Smart Load

Enable consumption of Qlik data for data reuse Consumer friendly data mashup and profiling

Master Library
Reusable definitions of dimensions, metrics, and Server-Side Authoring and Consumption
visualizations End to end server-side delivery

ETL and Scheduling

Automated transformation of data
Qlik Sense In-Memory Approach
In-Memory

MS Excel
MS Access

Cloudera Hadoop Hortonworks

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 Qlik Sense Platform Overview
Qlik Sense Hub
Drag and Drop development, analysis, and self service
environment
Qlik Sense Management Console (QMC)
Centralized management of all aspects of the Qlik Sense
Management
Hub Console
deployment
Qlik Sense Proxy (QPS)
Entry point into Qlik Sense for users and Administrators
Manages Authentication, Manages Sessions / License
Provisioning, Load Balancing
Proxy
Qlik Sense Engine (QIX / QES)
In-Memory, Associative Data Indexing Engine
Qlik Sense Scheduler (QSS)
QIX Engine
Scheduling Engine for Application reloads
Qlik Sense Repository (QRS)
Centralized storage of deployment information

Qlik Sense Applications (.QVF)

Scheduler Repository Applications
Persistent Storage of in-memory Applications
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Single Server Environment
Single Server Environment

Proxy Co-located Engine and

Scheduler
Best for Departmental
Engine Deployments

Central
Suitable for small or off
hours Scheduler tasks
Scheduler

Repository

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Two Server Environment
Two Server Environment
Proxy
Dedicated Engine and
Scheduler

Rim
Engine Best for departmental
deployments
Good for multi-departmental
deployments having limited
Proxy uptime requirements
Suitable for larger and

Central
Scheduler during business hours
Scheduler tasks

Repository

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 Growth Environment

Growth Environment

Proxy Proxy Dedicated Engine(s) and

Scheduler

Rim

Rim
Enables High Availability for
Engine Engine user facing components
(Proxy and Engine) for strict
uptime requirements
Enables isolation of
Scheduler Applications and/or Activities

Central
Suitable for larger and
Repository during business hours
Scheduler tasks

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 Enterprise Environment
Enterprise Environment
Dedicated Engine(s) and
Proxy Proxy
Scheduler(s)
Optional Separation of Proxy

Rim

Rim
from Engine
Engine Engine
Enables High Availability for user
facing components (Proxy and
Engine) for strict uptime
requirements
Rim

Rim
Scheduler Scheduler Enables isolation of Applications
and/or Activities
Enables High Availability for
batch components (Qlik Sense

Central
Scheduler)
Repository Can expand horizontally

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Environments
 About Server-Side Authoring
Qlik Sense uses server-side authoring
Authoring includes all aspects of the BI delivery process self-
service visualization, app creation, data sourcing and
associating.
Authoring capabilities of your developers, power users, and
business users are flexible and customizable.
Authoring is browser based with nothing to install on the desktop
and uses server CPU and RAM.

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 About Server-Side Authoring
Terminology:
Site A collection of servers tied to a license key.
(ex: Production Site, QA Site, Development Site)
Node A single server performing some function(s).

Engine Node a.k.a. User Node

content creation and consumption
via associative indexing engine

Scheduler Node a.k.a. Reload

Node applications reload via
scheduling component

Central Node central storage

and coordinator of apps and
repository data
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Development Option #1 Development Site
Development Site

Development Site

Use for traditional app

App
Creation development cycles
Test Site
with core IT / BI teams
Use for performance,
infrastructure, and
security testing
App
Testing Applications migrated
Production Site
via Qlik Deployment
Console or manual
export/import

App Consumption /
Self-Service

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 Development Option #2 Development Node
Development Node

Production Site Use with business users

Proxy creating apps from scratch,
data merging, data reloads
Dedicated Node for
authoring within
Production Site
Self-Service / Read-Only Apps Sandbox / Ad-hoc Apps (Development Node) Proxy routes users to node
for development
Requires two URLs (ex: /
hub and /dev)
App publishing
Central / Scheduler
automatically routes
finished app to other
Production nodes

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 Putting it all together for Governed Self-Service
Development Site
Business User
Production Site Creation / Consumption / Self-Service
IT Proxy
App
Creation

Test Site Sandbox / Ad-hoc Apps (Development Node)

Self-Service / Read-Only Apps

IT Central / Scheduler
Testing

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Qlik Sense
in the Cloud
 Cloud Deployment

Authentication
Proxy Determine how to integrate with third party identity
provider

Engine Analytics
Size for user activity

Scheduler ETL / Application Load

Determine how to connect to your data

Repository Authorization
on Central Node Determine how to integrate with third party identity
provider (via Qlik User Directory Connector)

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 Cloud Deployment
Analytics / Data Load in Cloud

Proxy

Identity
Engine Provider

Scheduler

Repository

Cloud Data Sources

Cloud

On Premise

On Premise Data Sources 20

 Data
Management
Qlik Sense Data Layer
Data Layer

Extracted Table of Data

VISUALIZATION APPS Secured by the Server
Automated by Qlik
Sense Scheduler
Single Source of Truth
Highly Compressed
Very Fast Data Loads
Incremental Loads
Development Flexibility
EXCEL SQL SAP ERP

Development Speed
ORACLE SALESFORCE
DATA
WAREHOUSE
WWW Delivery Flexibility

OPERATIONAL DATA SOURCES

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Governed Self Service Data Patterns
Data Layer Patterns

Ad-hoc / prototype by
skipping data layer
Build simple Data
Layer for data reuse
Transform and
aggregate data to
Transform / QlikMart apply additional
Aggregate
business rules
Build data models for
self service
Secured by the Server
Automated by Qlik
Sense Scheduler
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 Governed Self Service Data Patterns
Consumption Patterns
Consume

Consumers Users consume

visualization apps to
quickly answer the next
Personalize
question
Consumers / Contributors
Users personalize their
own visualizations
leveraging pre-built
Extend
Libraries
Consumers / Contributors
User build, extend, and
publish content
leveraging pre-built
Publish Consume Libraries
Consumers

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Governed Self Service Consumption Patterns
Consumption Patterns

Users consume
Consume
visualization apps to
Consumers
quickly answer the next
question
Users personalize their
Personalize
own visualizations
Consumers / Contributors
leveraging pre-built
Libraries

Extend User build, extend, and

publish content
Consumers / Contributors
leveraging pre-built
Libraries
Publish Consume

Consumers
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Demo
 Memory
Management
 Qlik Sense In-Memory Approach
Source Data Associative Data Indexing
Relational Table Symbol Tables
Region Sales Region Binary
Pointers Data Table
North 100
North 00 Region Sales
North 120
South 01 00 00
South 100
00 01
South 85 Sales Binary
Pointers 01 00

100 00 01 10
So What?
120 01
More data in RAM
Performance 85 10
Free-Form Exploration
Continuous Context
Completely Connected Charts Represent relationships
Strip out redundancy in in binary for
data for compression compression 28
 Qlik Sense In-Memory Model
Application(s)
In-Memory Model
User Session
Symbol Tables States Only distinct values
Region Pointer
Sales Pointer are stored in RAM
North 00
100 00 Only one copy of
South 01
120 01 Result Cache application stored in
RAM
Result Result Result
Region Sales
00 00
Each users session
Result Result
state (RAM) is
Data Table 00 01 Result
Result Result returned after use
01 00 Result
Result Result Cache is self-
01 10
Result managing
Result

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Thank You