Catalog contains tables, views , tables and so on.

All these objects are

organized into schemas and schemas are used to categorize the database
contents according to customer defined groupings
The column view that you create are always located under schema _SIS_BIC
and their metadata in schema _SIS_BI.
SQL processor handles DML statements (INSERT,DELETE,MODIFY) and other
DDL statements for tables, views, columns are dispatched to metadata
manager
Data Provisioning

Referntial Join:
It is semantically an inner join that assume that referential integrity is given which
means that the left table always have a corresponding entry on the RIGHT table. It
can be seen as an optimized or faster inner join where the RIGHT table is not
checked if no field from the RIGHT table is requested. That means that the
Referential Joins will be only executed, when fields from both tables are requested.
Therefore, if a field is selected from the RIGHT table it will act similar to inner join,
and if no fields from the RIGHT table is selected it will act similar to a left outer join.
From performance perspective, the Left Outer Join are almost equally fast as
Referential Join, while the Inner Join is usually slower due to the fact, that the join is
always executed.
Analytic View: Helps you create fact table by adding and joining the tables in
data foundation node. Additionally, tables added in data foundation can be joined
with attribute views in logical join
Logical Join : displays only fields you have chosen to include in output of
data foundation node, as well restricted and calculated columns can be define.
Data foundation : view shows physicals tables with all the fields that can be
incorporated in final model