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Alopex Enterprise

Protect, connect, decide. One design for the data platform.

Alopex Enterprise is a commercial feature package concept built on the released Alopex DB OSS foundation. It adds data protection, cross-domain search and analysis, SLO-centered operations, and distributed service infrastructure. The architecture is currently under design and technical validation.

A commercial feature package concept adding Security Suite, unified query and enterprise search, Observe, and distributed infrastructure to the Alopex DB OSS foundation.

Commercial packageIn design
Design areas
4
Status
In design

Key points

  • Security Suite: a three-layer protection model for storage, data use, and data transfer
  • Unified Query Model: SQL, AQL, PromQL, search, and aggregation across one execution model
  • Observe & Infrastructure: foundations for SLO decisions and distributed service operations
enterprisesecurityobservabilitydata-platform

Challenge

As the data platform fragments, so do protection, search, and operational decisions

Enterprise systems often adopt databases, search, time series, objects, identity, and monitoring separately. That makes it difficult to manage data lifecycles, access boundaries, cross-domain analysis, and SLO-driven operations consistently.

  • Encryption, keys, and access controls diverge across storage locations and data types
  • Full-text, structured, vector, and time-series queries run on disconnected execution systems
  • Observability stops at visualization instead of informing SLO and error-budget decisions or automation

Alopex Enterprise is a commercial feature package built on the Alopex DB OSS foundation. It adds Security Suite, Unified Query Model & Enterprise Search, Observe, and Unified Infrastructure for enterprise workloads. The package is currently in architecture design and technical validation, and is not generally available.

For the released foundation, see Alopex DB and the Alopex DB Docs. To discuss early evaluation or collaborative validation around enterprise requirements, please contact us.

Connect the data lifecycle and operational decisions through one Alopex architecture

Alopex Enterprise layers security, query, observability, and infrastructure capabilities on Alopex DB, the Skulk time-series engine, and Chirps cluster communication. The aim is not merely to replace individual components, but to treat data creation, use, transfer, revocation, and deletion across the platform.

  • Design data storage, use, sharing, and revocation around policy and auditability
  • Bring search, analytics, and time-series queries toward a common execution model through fit-for-purpose APIs
  • Make the SLO state and the next action—not just metric display—the center of operations
Data protection
3 layers
Query APIs
SQL+AQL+PromQL

Package boundary

What Alopex Enterprise adds to Alopex DB

Alopex DB is the public OSS foundation. Alopex Enterprise is the commercial package that adds the enterprise capabilities below. All Enterprise capabilities are currently in design or technical validation.

 Alopex DB OSSAlopex Enterprise package
Data protectionPublic database and storage foundationSecurity Suite for storage, data policy, identity, classification, revocation, and re-encryption
Query and searchSQL, vector, and database capabilities provided by the OSS foundationUnified Query Model and Enterprise Search across SQL, AQL, PromQL, full-text, structured, vector, and aggregation workloads
OperationsOpen-source components and deployment foundationsObserve for SLOs, error budgets, burn rates, decisions, and action automation
Platform infrastructureAlopex DB, Skulk, Chirps, and related public componentsUnified Infrastructure packages for configuration, service discovery, internal DNS, and higher-level platform services

Architecture

Four Enterprise package areas

These are the feature areas that define the Enterprise package. Availability and specifications may change as implementation progresses.

Security Suite

A security model for data from storage and use through transfer across organizational and domain boundaries

  • Storage Shield: encryption and key rotation for database, time-series, embedded, and WASM storage
  • Secure Fabric: policy-driven data classification, field-level protection, searchable indexes, revocation, and re-encryption
  • Identity Bridge: JWT/OIDC-compatible authentication and role- and domain-based authorization

Unified Query Model & Enterprise Search

A query execution model for search and analysis across data models

  • A '3 APIs, 1 Engine' design for SQL, AQL, and PromQL
  • An AQL search model combining full-text, structured, vector, and aggregation queries
  • Parallel shard execution plus ranking and aggregation designed for search and analysis together

Observe

An observability layer centered on SLO-driven decisions rather than charts alone

  • Metrics design starting with Golden Signals, RED, and USE
  • State evaluation through SLOs, error budgets, and burn rates
  • A decision engine designed to connect notification, scaling, rollback, and other actions

Unified Infrastructure

A distributed foundation that avoids multiplying operational touchpoints as services grow

  • alopex-config: a distributed configuration store with etcd/ZooKeeper compatibility in view
  • alopex-discovery-dns: service discovery and internal DNS
  • A foundation for higher-level services such as Alopex Forge and object storage

Planned Components

The components of the Enterprise package

All areas are in design or technical validation. They are not presented as generally available features.

Secure Data Lifecycle

A concept for treating encryption, data classification, search, key transfer and rotation, revocation, and deletion as one data lifecycle.

Enterprise Search

A search and analytics layer under consideration that combines full-text, structured, and vector search with aggregation through AQL.

SLO-Centric Observe

A design for operational support centered on SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and burn rates, with OpenTelemetry integration in view.

Platform Services

A direction for extending shared foundations into configuration, discovery, BaaS, and S3-compatible object storage.

Foundation

Built up from released OSS

Alopex Enterprise is designed as a commercial feature package layered on the Alopex data engines and distributed foundation. The public OSS foundation and Enterprise-specific capabilities remain separate.

Data Engines

Alopex DB, Skulk, and data layers for search, vector processing, and analytics

Alopex DB's SQL, KVS, vector, and distributed foundationTime-series ingestion and queries through SkulkSearch design combining full-text, columnar, and vector indexes

Security & Control

A control plane for data policy, keys, identity, and audit

A layered design separating storage, logical data protection, and identityPolicies that account for domain boundaries and the data lifecycleData operations designed for audit, revocation, and re-encryption

Runtime & Operations

An execution and operations layer connecting distributed services and decisions

Cluster communication and event integration through ChirpsObservability organized around OpenTelemetry, SLOs, and error budgetsInfrastructure packages for configuration and service discovery

GitHub Sponsors

Support the public OSS and follow the work earlier

Sponsorship supports public OSS including AlopexDB, jv-lang, and GraphRAG. Higher tiers provide early visibility into the work explicitly listed on GitHub Sponsors, without turning sponsorship into a product purchase.

Compare all three Sponsor tiers

OSS Support

$3 / month

Support ongoing development across AlopexDB, jv-lang, GraphRAG, and related tools.

  • Help accelerate updates and future public releases
  • Provide steady support for the open-source ecosystem

Early Access

$12 / month

Follow technical work across multiple asopitech projects before public release.

  • See experiments, design drafts, internal notes, and prototypes early
  • Follow pre-public work across AlopexDB, jv-lang, GraphRAG, and more

Enterprise-focused Early Access

$99 / month

Follow enterprise-focused enhancements across the asopitech ecosystem before public release.

  • Explore enterprise-focused work across AlopexDB, jv-lang, GraphRAG, and additional tools
  • Explore pre-release capabilities designed to strengthen security and deployment

The GitHub Sponsors listing is the source of truth for current benefits and eligibility. Sponsorship does not include an Alopex Enterprise product license, SLA, or commercial support. Benefits may change as development progresses.

Status

The Enterprise package is currently in design and validation

Alopex Enterprise is a commercial feature package, not a support tier for Alopex DB. It is not generally available yet. Work is progressing from the released Alopex DB foundation by defining and validating security boundaries, data flows, query behavior, and SRE operations. Contact us to discuss an early package evaluation.

Public Resources

The latest documents, code, and community links in one place.

Commercial Evaluation

Discuss your Enterprise requirements

Use the contact route for commercial package evaluation. GitHub Sponsors is a separate participation route for supporting public OSS and following selected technical work before release.