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Platinur does not require all data to be loaded by Platinur. You may load source data into your warehouse through your own ingestion processes. The product contract is simple: one source maps to one database in your ClickHouse. Platinur can inspect those databases, let you choose tables, and use the selected tables during the first build and assistant-driven model changes — but it treats them as read-only: Platinur never modifies data it didn’t load.

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When to use external source schemas

  • You already have ingestion jobs.
  • Source loading is governed by another platform.
  • The source is outside Platinur’s native v1 connectors, or already uses another ingestion service.
  • You want to separate ingestion ownership from modeling ownership.

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Discovery during the first build

Every non-system database that is not a Platinur output database appears automatically in the build’s source list (Models → Build), with its tables and approximate row counts — including databases with custom names that were loaded entirely outside Platinur. Toggle a discovered database on, optionally narrow the table selection, and build. Selecting it saves it as a configured source; no integration setup is required.

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Operator responsibility

Before building, confirm that the source databases exist, have usable tables, and contain data appropriate for analytics modeling. Then select them in Models → Build when starting the first build.