Sitecore Cortex Processing Engine

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The Sitecore Cortex™ Processing Engine service performs data processing tasks at scale.

Note

For information on how to work with and extend the processing engine, see the Sitecore Experience Platform documentation.

Supported infrastructure

You can host the Sitecore Cortex Processing Engine service on:

Windows Service
Azure Web Job

Refer to the Sitecore compatibility table for compatible versions.

Reference structure

The Sitecore Cortex Processing Engine service has its place in the Sitecore reference structure. It can be referenced by other roles, and it can also reference other roles.

Referenced by

The Sitecore Cortex Processing Engine service is not referenced by other roles.

References

The Sitecore Cortex Processing Engine service references the following roles:

Storage roles

Role name	Connection string name	Port	Type
Processing Storage	processing.engine.storage	1443	SQL
Processing Tasks database	processing.engine.tasks	1443	SQL
xDB Reporting database	reporting	1443	SQL

Application roles

Role name	Connection string name	Port	Type	Notes
xConnect Collection service	xconnect.collection	443	HTTPS
xConnect Collection Search service	xconnect.search	443	HTTPS

Note

Set the xconnect.configuration connection string value to the same value as xconnect.collection. There is no separate configuration service role.

The following client certificates are required in a secure production environment:

Role	Connection string name	Type
xConnect Collection Search service	xconnect.search.certificate	Certificate
xConnect Collection service	xconnect.collection.certificate	Certificate
xConnect Collection service (no separate configuration role)	xconnect.configuration.certificate	Certificate

Privacy and security

The Sitecore Cortex Processing Engine service handles personal data in the following ways:

Processing workers can read contact and interaction data from an xConnect data source.

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