> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.activeviam.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Dataloading Overview

The datastore represents a universe of data, versioned in time, that can be queried, mainly
by an ActivePivot cube.

> Please note that, while you can still interact with the datastore as in the previous versions,
> from version 6.0 the ActivePivot cube is not based upon an `IDatastore` but upon an `IDatabase`,
> allowing for other database implementations to be used as the data provider.

This section of the documentation is specific to the datastore,
ActiveViam's implementation of a database that was specifically built for ActivePivot.

Data is loaded into the datastore from different sources, in a classical ETL (Extract - Transform - Load) pattern.