Intelligent Search
Search runs against the projection of the ledger, not a parallel index that can drift. Index rebuilds are themselves SearchIndexRebuilt entries — so a reviewer can prove which version of the catalogue answered any historical query.
Magellan provides an intelligent, Google‑style search experience across your entire metadata catalogue — schemas, mappings, rules, tags, and descriptions.
Type‑ahead suggestions surface relevant results as you type, so domain experts can find what they need without navigating complex folder hierarchies.
Search is contextual: it considers the type of asset, its tags, descriptions, and even its relationships to other assets when ranking results.
Users can search across all asset types — entities, attributes, maps, schemas, and rule functions — from a single search bar.
The search index is a projection of the audit ledger. Each rebuild writes a `SearchIndexRebuilt` entry with the ledger ULID range it covers, so a reviewer can determine exactly which version of the catalogue was searchable at any past moment.
This makes Magellan accessible to business SMEs who may not know the technical structure of the data landscape but know the business terms they're looking for.
Audit ledger entries written by this feature
Each action in this feature appends one of the following entry types to the ULID‑keyed, SHA‑256 hash‑chained audit ledger. A reviewer can replay the chain to reconstruct exactly what happened, when, and under which role.
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