BIRT Analytics Loader is a web-based application to create, execute, and schedule data loading processes. Figure 1‑1 shows the BIRT Analytics architecture.

BIRT Analytics Loader supports importing data from multiple data sources, relational databases, and text files, using database native drivers and ODBC connectors. The application creates processes that extract, transform, and load data, storing it in a proprietary format in a FastDB repository. The FastDB repository contains different types of objects, such as databases, tables and columns. This repository is managed by the FastDB engine. The engine runs as a service, named BIRT Analytics - FastDB, also known as dubnium.