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KnowledgeFabricImpl overview
Reference · liveknowledge-fabric-impl:danswer-fabric
Danswer/Onyx as Deployable Knowledge Fabric overview
Danswer (rebranded as Onyx) as a self-hostable enterprise knowledge fabric. Multi-connector architecture supporting 25+ data sources including Confluence, Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Notion, and Jira. Hybrid retrieval (dense + sparse) with cross-encoder re-ranking provides high-quality answers with citations. Document-level access control respects source permissions. Self-hostable with Docker Compose for organizations that cannot use cloud-based knowledge services. As a knowledge fabric, Danswer provides an open-source alternative to Glean for enterprise knowledge unification.
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Danswer/Onyx as Deployable Knowledge Fabric
description
Danswer (rebranded as Onyx) as a self-hostable enterprise knowledge
fabric. Multi-connector architecture supporting 25+ data sources including
Confluence, Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Notion, and Jira. Hybrid
retrieval (dense + sparse) with cross-encoder re-ranking provides
high-quality answers with citations. Document-level access control
respects source permissions. Self-hostable with Docker Compose for
organizations that cannot use cloud-based knowledge services. As a
knowledge fabric, Danswer provides an open-source alternative to Glean
for enterprise knowledge unification.
knowledgeFileFormats
- multi-connector-index
retrievalStrategy
hybrid
knowledgePersistence
self-hosted-index
knowledgeScopes
- organization
- enterprise
autoExtractionSupport
false
notes
Danswer's access control model is its key differentiator among open-source
RAG apps — it inherits permissions from source systems, so users only see
answers grounded in documents they have access to. This makes it suitable
for enterprise deployment where information security is non-negotiable.
The trade-off versus Glean is operational overhead of self-hosting.
Outgoing edges
integrates_with1
- tool:danswer·ToolDanswer (Onyx)
realizes1
- layer:12-knowledge-fabric·LayerKnowledge Fabric
Incoming edges
None.