Why migrate to Edge?

Edge provides our customers with all of the capabilities provided with Jobserver, but with better security controls and added capabilities. Edge provides seamless native integrations and on-site data processing solutions that prioritize security and proximity to the data, while keeping the processing of your data within your own environment.

	Edge	Jobserver
Capabilities	Edge-certified JDBC connectors JDBC metadata ingestion on Database level JDBC data profiling and classification JDBC data sampling Data Notebooks Protect Multiple integrations, such as Amazon S3, Databricks, ADLS	Jobserver-certified JDBC connectors JDBC metadata ingestion: Schema level Data profiling Data classification Data sampling Some integrations
Security	Edge provides the ability to mirror images in your private docker registry which allows you to scan containers per your security policy. This provides you with information on vulnerabilities around Edge containers and opens the dialogue among your security stakeholders regarding risk, tolerance, and remediation requirements. You can integrate your Edge site with your existing vault provider and implement your organization’s credential management policies for any data source to which Edge connects. Data source secrets / credentials are stored on the Edge site. Classification is local to the Edge site, which means that none of your data leaves your premises. Sample data will be requested from the data source live, and cached on the Edge site for a certain time frame (24 to 48 hours).	Data source secrets / credentials are stored in the Collibra Cloud. To classify data, client sample data is sent to the Cloud Classification platform. Sample data is stored in the Collibra Cloud.
Performance	Can ingest and profile in parallel. No limit on the table size you can profile.	All capabilities executed sequentially. Limit on table size you can profile.
Extensibility	Edge is a run time platform to host all capabilities, and this includes any new capabilities that will be developed and deployed in the future.	Jobserver requires several separate components for new capabilities, such as Separate Jobserver for Tableau ingestion or separate command line application for lineage harvester.
Maintenance	Installer bundled with minimal binaries and artifacts. The installation is “live” in that the installer pulls images from the repository over the internet at install time. Edge provides two upgrade modes. Edge can be upgraded as soon as there is a release available. It can also be updated when the customer prefers and is typically to review security vulnerabilities in a release, a feature in Smart Upgrade. Automatic: your Edge site is upgraded as soon as a new release version is available. Manual: you control when your Edge site is upgraded, allowing you to review security vulnerabilities in a release version before upgrading your Edge site.	Console application on the Jobserver offers a user interface for some configuration and access to logs. Some configuration changes must be made directly in configuration files. Jobserver only has one upgrade mode: Manual.