Methods and systems for communication in a heterogeneous distributed system are described. The described systems implement the described methods, where the method includes receiving data from at least one data source, by a data store computing device. The method further includes identifying a data source from amongst the at least one data source to have generated the data, based on host parameters associated with the data source and the data. Further, the method includes determining the data to be represented in a first data presentation based on the identified data source and the host parameters and transforming the data from the first data presentation to a second data presentation, where the data store computing device operates using the second data presentation.