Getting Started with PISTIS

The PISTIS platform is realised as a federated environment of collaborating stakeholders, governed by a central cloud-based entity. PlSTIS constitutes a Data Space where stakeholders will be operating a “PISTIS Data Factory” deployment on their premises, either locally or on their own cloud resources (coloured in green in Figure below, with the blue indicating the data storage facilities of each stakeholder). Stakeholders use their Factories to manage their own data; all Factories connect through the “PISTIS Cloud Platform”(coloured in orange in Figure below), which is used to provide services that facilitate data monetisation and transaction execution. This macroscopic view of the architecture is shown in Figure below. Blockchain nodes are made available to facilitate transactions, however their presence in the network does not need to follow a 1:1 matching with the Data Factories.

It is noted that the actual flow of data (e.g. of the “data assets”) is performed only via a peer-to-peer communication channel set-up between the different “PISTIS Data Factories” of the Data Provider and of the Data Consumer, thus increasing the overall security and trust of the PISTIS platform and catering for data sovereignty and privacy.

The next figure gives a closer look at the current PISTIS architecture. It shows the various bundles and the components within them. Additionally, it illustrates the main data, metadata, and control flows across the entire platform