Service

DataHub

Access key scientific datasets in a scalable way

DataHub allows you to enable simple and scalable access to distributed data for computation, and to publish a dataset and make it available to a specific community, or worldwide, across federated sites.

DataHub

Overview

DataHub

DataHub allows you to bring data close to computing to exploit it efficiently, and to publish a dataset and make it available to a specific community, or worldwide, across federated sites. DataHub is based on the Onedata technology.

You can access the service for evaluation using the PLAYGROUND shared space, or request support to publish your data and have dedicated storage assigned.

Main features

Discovery of data via a central portal.
Access to data conforming to required policies which may be:
- unauthenticated open access;
- access after user registration or
- access restricted to members of a Virtual Organization (VO).
Access to data via GUI, POSIX, CDMI
Replication of data from data providers for resiliency and availability purposes. Replication may take place either on-demand or automatically.
Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) integration between the EGI DataHub and with other EGI components and with user communities existing infrastructure.
Metadata and shares management
Data import and data caching based on file popularity
Support for many backends (CEPH, S3, GlusterFS, POSIX, etc)