Frequently asked questions
Yes! GX Cloud is fully hosted—you don’t need to install anything to use it.
Our documentation on GX Cloud’s deployment options has all the details, including information on the optional alternatives to fully hosted.
GX Cloud and GX Core are two complementary components that together create the GX platform.
GX Core provides the platform’s critical technical capabilities, including Expectations. It’s a powerful Python framework that gives data teams flexibility, which is one reason that it’s the most popular data quality framework in the world.
GX Cloud makes it easy to get value out of GX Core. This includes providing a fully hosted infrastructure that makes it quick to get started, a user interface that’s accessible to technical and nontechnical stakeholders alike, and additional features that facilitate communication and collaboration.
Think of GX Core as a car engine—a powerful machine, but it needs additional components to help you get anywhere. GX Cloud is like getting a complete car: all the power of the engine at its center, plus everything you need to actually go places.
GX Cloud is the right choice for most people: it’s a fully hosted SaaS layer which adds extra features on top of GX Core.
GX Cloud is much easier to set up and get started, and allows for more effective collaboration workflows around your data quality process. This is doubly true for nontechnical stakeholders, who will find GX Cloud’s intuitive user interface a familiar way of navigating the world.
GX Cloud also offers enhanced visualizations, historical data, and changelogs compared to GX Core. Critically, GX Cloud also has user management and RBAC capabilities that are not part of the GX Core framework.
GX Core is the best option in some niche scenarios: if you need to BYOdB, have esoteric infrastructure requirements like air gap, or just can’t use cloud-hosted SaaS.
Please visit our pricing page for more information.
GX as an organization has obtained our SOC2 Type II certification: for more details, visit the GX trust center.
GX Cloud only stores the metadata that’s required to display your data quality test results, profile your data, and otherwise operate the platform. This metadata is encrypted at rest using AES-256 and in transit using TLS 1.2. We also enforce tenant isolation both in the application and in the database via Postgres Row Level Security (RLS) rules.
GX Cloud never hosts your data, or copies your data or Data Sources to a GX-controlled machine or environment. All processing takes place in your environment for both security and performance reasons.
For users, GX Cloud provides user management and RBAC functionality to allow user access to organizations. All of an organization’s users can see the Data Sources and the associated Expectations and results.
No. GX Cloud can see the data in the tables you connect it to, but compute, including the processing of your data quality tests, happens within your environment. GX Cloud does not pull the data under test into the application, and GX as an organization cannot see the data in your tables at any point.
GX Cloud does store the test results and metadata needed to display your test results and manage your Data Sources and Expectations, including table and column names and Data Source credentials.
Yes. GX Core is an integral part of GX Cloud, and we’re committed to maintaining, developing, and improving it for the long haul. Our latest investment in it is a major improvement effort which culminated in the release of GX Core 1.0 in August 2024.
Public preview is an intermediate step between the Beta program and making GX Cloud generally available: it allows us to gather broader feedback on GX Cloud from a wider variety of use cases.
During public preview, GX Cloud is open to our community. You can create a GX Cloud account and start using it with Snowflake or Postgres in minutes, completely self-service.
