Orka concepts - Orka Documentation

Orka-specific terms and concepts.

Term	Definition
Adaptive pipelines	Pipelines that automatically adapt when a schema changes in operational databases. Orka isolates changes to the affected columns only, allowing all other columns to continue working.
Category	Classification of data protection rules. Available categories: authentication, custom, PII, financial or health.
Data protection admin	User group responsible for managing data protection rules and defining protection methods.
Data protection rules	Rules that automatically detect and protect sensitive data. Rules identify sensitive data by matching patterns in column names and values, then apply a protection method.
Field-level protection	Orka protects specific fields instead of blocking entire tables. This unlocks tables containing both sensitive and non-sensitive data.
Orka admin	The user (or user group) responsible for deploying Orka, configuring the infrastructure and managing user access.
Pattern	A regular expression used to identify sensitive data in column names or values.
Protection method	Determines how sensitive data is protected: mask (converts to asterisks), hash (applies one-way hash), drop (removes the column) or none (data is identified only).