Executive Summary

The Aralia Stellar System is an architectural model for building a large-scale, self-contained, and sustainable data ecosystem. It is designed to address the challenges of deploying Aralia systems across diverse social entities such as conglomerates, corporations, international consortia, and higher-education institutions.

The system operates as a federation of autonomous Data Planets organized around a central “Sun,” which serves as the governance core. This core ensures consistent rules, policies, and controls while preserving the independent ownership of each Data Planet (i.e., each data provider). By mirroring real-world communities where individual members contribute resources, the Aralia Stellar System enables secure, controlled, and collaborative data sharing across heterogeneous organizations.

In short, The Aralia Stellar System: a federated, AI-ready data ecosystem where autonomous Data Planets share securely, governed by a central Sun, and instantly accessible to AI agents without extra preparation.

Introduction

The Stellar System is a federated model of Data Planets organized around a central “Sun,” which provides enhanced governance for robust data control and protection. It functions as an autonomous system with a distinct physical presence (site, URL) that manages a collection of Planet Members and typically represents a specialized domain encapsulating related Data Planets. Designed to support an AI-ready data ecosystem, the Stellar System enables secure and efficient data sharing across enterprises, international consortia, universities, and government agencies.

Key Modules and Services

The Aralia Stellar System delivers powerful front-end capabilities built on essential core services while preserving the autonomous, decentralized nature of the Data Planet federation. It seamlessly integrates modern AI-centric features with enterprise-grade services, including advanced data discovery and geospatial capabilities. The core components and services of a Stellar System include:

• Portal: The main user interface.
• Planet Authority: Manages member planets and provides access services.
• User Accounts and User Groups (IDM): Manages user provisioning and authentication.
• User Authentication: Handles user logins and single sign-on (SSO).
• Discovery Service: Enables searching for datasets on member planets.
• Geo Data Service: Facilitates spatial location and boundaries for geo-mapping applications.
• Usage Tracking Service: Collects and summarizes usage data.
• OpenRAG SDK and API: Python-based SDK and ready-to-use AI agents to interact with planets.

Core System Functions

• Planet Authority: The Stellar System acts as the Planet Authority for its member planets, ensuring that access tokens are issued through its "Star" component before data can be accessed. This is a crucial part of the Aralia Open Data Ecosystem.
• User Management: The Stellar System centralizes user account provisioning and authentication for all Planet members. It supports linking user accounts to corporate IDMs and social networks, utilizing standard protocols like OAuth for authentication and SSO. It also enables the creation and management of custom User Groups, which are then available to all member planets for assigning data access permissions.
• Usage Tracking: While detailed usage logging occurs at the Planet level, the Stellar System collects statistical and summarized usage data from member planets, presenting it on a centralized usage page.