Instance Types

Production Instance

By default, OneStream’s Service only includes a production instance. The production instance is configured based on the customer’s user count to provide optimal performance for the estimated size of the unified data model. 

Non-production Instances

In addition to the production instance, customers may add additional non-production instances for development and testing purposes. All non-production instances are isolated from the customer’s production cloud instance resources to ensure that no performance degradation occurs as a result of development and testing activities. 

Partial Sandbox

A partial sandbox is intended to be used as a testing environment. The partial sandbox allows customers to load their metadata, business rules, and other application configuration elements, along with source system data, to test their unified data model, workflows, and related items. Note that the partial sandbox prioritizes a production like experience for the data model, with limited user concurrency. You can use a partial sandbox for quality assurance tasks such as data model verification, user acceptance testing, integration testing, and similar activities.

Full Sandbox

A full sandbox is intended to be used as a testing environment. In addition to the feature functionality provided by a partial sandbox, a full sandbox allows for performance / load testing on a like-for-like basis with the customer’s production Cloud Instance.