WhoDB, answered directly.
Clear answers for teams deciding whether WhoDB fits their data stack, daily work, and security requirements.
Product answers last reviewed August 25, 2026.
What is WhoDB?
WhoDB is a data operations platform for understanding and working with connected data. Teams use one project to explore databases, build and run transformations, trace lineage, model business concepts, create apps and functions, and work with an AI agent that can use the same permitted data and workflows.
Is WhoDB only a database management tool?
No. Database exploration and native querying are the starting point. WhoDB continues into visual pipelines, run history, lineage, shared business models, internal apps, reusable functions, collaboration, versioned work, and AI-assisted operations.
What data sources can WhoDB connect to?
WhoDB connects to relational databases, warehouses, analytical engines, document stores, key-value systems, graph databases, cloud services, and business systems. Your team sees the tools that are useful for each connected system.
What can teams build in WhoDB?
Teams can build visual data transformations, managed datasets, semantic models, reusable functions, and internal data apps. Every output stays connected to the original data, execution history, permissions, and lineage.
How does WhoDB help with data lineage?
WhoDB traces upstream and downstream relationships across databases, files, datasets, transformations, business models, functions, apps, and supported OpenLineage data. Teams can inspect nearby dependencies or the full project path before making a change.
How does the WhoDB AI agent use company data?
The agent can use the data, workflows, models, and tools permitted in the active WhoDB project. It follows each user's access and can require confirmation before consequential actions.
Does WhoDB support CLI and MCP workflows?
Yes. The WhoDB CLI supports database and hosted-project work from the terminal, while its MCP server lets compatible AI clients use the data and tools each user is permitted to access.
Can WhoDB run in a private cloud environment?
Yes. WhoDB Cloud is the managed service, and Managed Private is available for organizations that need WhoDB deployed inside their own cloud environment with deployment and maintenance support.