ASAM ODS standardizes how tools access test data but in many enterprises the data no longer lives in one place. Alongside classic ASAM ODS repositories you’ll find data lakes and buckets, indexing services, legacy databases, and domain-specific APIs used for specific workloads. Janus is built for these mixed data landscapes. It virtualizes and unifies multiple sources into a single ASAM ODS project view without forcing a “store everything twice” migration.
At the core is a modular handler architecture: identity and access, modeling, mapping, metadata, mass data, and file/artifact handling run as independent services that can be combined and scaled per source and per workload. For enterprise reliability, Janus can also be operated stateless and deployed with only the APIs required for a given environment.
Janus is a cloud-native ASAM ODS 6 platform that virtualizes diverse data sources behind a consistent ODS 6 API endpoint. It keeps the ASAM ODS toolchain stable while enabling federated architectures, allowing classic ASAM ODS repositories to be unified with lakes/buckets, indexing services, legacy databases, and domain APIs without forcing a “copy everything into one database” approach.
Janus can be operated stateless at the platform layer: requests are handled without relying on long-lived in-memory server sessions. This enables elastic throughput (scale out and in without session stickiness), improves availability (components can be restarted or updated without taking the platform offline), and supports cost control by scaling only the handlers under load while keeping baseline capacity lean.
Janus is built around modular handlers, so heavy workloads can be routed to dedicated services—metadata, search/index, mass data retrieval, or file/artifact handling. This improves performance by optimizing hot paths independently and by deploying only the APIs and handlers required for a scenario. The result is faster response behavior and more efficient resource usage, especially in cloud and distributed environments.
Janus extends ASAM ODS 6 into a cloud-native platform for enterprise test data management. It keeps the ASAM ODS toolchain stable while enabling modern distributed architectures, allowing teams to unify multiple repositories and systems behind a single, consistent ASAM ODS API.
Libertas is the standard ASAM ODS system of record: one governed backend that implements the full ASAM ODS API on a classic metadata + mass data architecture. Janus builds on the same foundations and can replace Libertas while adding modular, restart-friendly operation and elastic throughput scaling across handlers and services.
Use Janus when you need more than one repository: multi-silo projects, hybrid hot/cold storage, cloud-native scaling, PLM/enterprise context integration, or modernization without forced transformation. Janus can replace Libertas, run alongside other ASAM ODS servers, or federate multiple ASAM ODS and non-ASAM ODS sources into one project view.
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Janus virtualizes heterogeneous sources, such as classic ASAM ODS repositories, PLM context, homegrown APIs, and legacy databases (SQL or non-SQL), into a single ASAM ODS project view using dedicated mapping and adaptation handler services. This keeps the ASAM ODS toolchain stable while enriching test data with enterprise context, without forcing a “transform first” or “store everything twice” approach.
Enterprises often operate multiple ASAM ODS projects across domains, sites, and model variants plus additional non-ASAM ODS silos. Janus can federate these into a consolidated project view, enabling cross-program reporting, global search, and unified downstream workflows while keeping governance and measurement context intact.
Janus is built for a system architecture where governed ASAM ODS systems coexist with object storage and data lakes (buckets), Parquet/columnar analytics, and search/index backends. It supports hot/cold storage, retention, and cost-optimized archiving while maintaining consistent access through the ASAM ODS API, so analytics pipelines and client integrations don’t need rewrites as storage and compute evolve.
Janus supports containerized deployment to simplify rollout and operations. In orchestrated environments, services can be scaled, deployed, and managed predictably—supporting enterprise-grade availability and growth.
All software provided by HighQSoft can run in cloud environments, including AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba. Janus fits Kubernetes-based operations (including OpenShift). Common cloud storage options can be integrated, and OAuth-based authentication can be used where supported.
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