What is a Satellite?

Satellites are the context and content of the core business entities and business relationships.
Each Satellite will only relate to a single Hub or Link.
They contain the descriptive data or history fields of a business key or relationship.
There can be multiple Satellites per given Hub or Link. Common examples of designs for a Satellite can be different source systems, rates of change and types of data.
It is defined with a foreign key attribute to the related Hub or Link. It is generally defined with a field for the load timestamp (load date) and a field for where the data came from (record source).
It can also include a field for the start date, which could be different from the load date for when the context data is active.

How to create a Satellite in 3D?

  1. Supplements the design of a Hub or Link.
  2. Add additional attributes from the sources.
  3. Set the attribute type on the attribute to a designated Satellite attribute type; for example, Satellite medium volatility.
  • Only use one Satellite attribute type on the attribute, i.e. one attribute type per type of Satellite. A future release may support multiple attribute types (Split groups of attribute types per Satellite).
  • If the designed entity is scoped to become both a Hub and Link; the Satellite attribute types will always be related to the generated Hub.

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