Personium.io Concepts

Unit

A unit is a system infrastructure which runs Personium which have a unique FQDN.

Since Personium adopts unique distributed architecture, it is possible to create a relationship between units and give privilege based on it.

In a unit, it is possible to create multiple cell.

Cell

A cell is a fundamental concepts of personium.io. Each Cells are independent as if they are different tenant in multi-tenancy model.

A Cell provides following feature

• Authentication and authorization
• Access Control
• Data Store for Applications (Box)
• Event Processing, Messaging, Script Execution

Box

A box is data store for application.

A box can store following data.

• Directory
• File Object
• OData Data Service