baseeis

Baseeis is a fictional information-management framework used in theoretical discussions and educational materials to illustrate principles of distributed data processing and interoperability.

The term arose in online textbooks and thought experiments during the 2010s, where authors used Baseeis to compare architectural styles such as monolithic designs, microservices, and event-driven systems.

In the imagined Baseeis model, the architecture is divided into a base layer for ingestion and encoding of raw data, an execution layer for processing and storage, and a policy layer that handles security, provenance, and versioning. The design emphasizes modular adapters for data sources and sinks, pluggable data schemas, event-sourcing practices, and explicit data lineage.

Baseeis is not a real standard or product; it functions as a teaching aid and discussion prompt. Advocates discuss its clarity of layering and emphasis on interoperability, while critics argue that its abstractions can obscure operational realities such as performance, governance, and ecosystem maturity.