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Your first workspace

A workspace is where your team collaborates. It attaches one or more catalogs — the data domains you query. This page creates your first workspace and catalog.

Create a workspace

After signing in as the admin you created during installation, create a workspace by name. A new workspace starts empty — no catalog and no storage are provisioned yet.

Create a catalog

Open the workspace's catalog browser and use the + → Create catalog. By default the catalog uses the bundled object storage and gets a default analytics schema, so you can start querying immediately — no storage configuration required. The first catalog you attach becomes the workspace's default (used for unqualified table names).

Using external storage

To back a catalog with your own S3 bucket or Azure Data Lake instead of the bundled object store, pick or register that storage backend in the create-catalog dialog's Storage backend selector. A catalog's backend is chosen here, but an admin can change it later with a storage migration.

Add members

Invite teammates and assign each a role:

  • reader — browse and query
  • writer — also create and modify tables
  • owner — also manage membership

See Manage users & access and Permissions.

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