Databases
Mandate
The Database Services Group (IT-DB) is responsible for current and future databases and their platform for accelerators, experiments and administrative services. It is also in charge of hosting Java Web applications as well as critical engineering and administration applications at CERN scale. Moreover, the group provides scale-out analytics services including Hadoop, Spark and Kafka for CERN and the LHC experiments.
For all these services, the group is responsible to work with its users’ community to define the future generation of the services. In a number of cases, the group members also work with the WLCG Tier1 and Tier2 sites to deploy services all across the computing sites.
- IT-DB piquet: On-call support outside working hours is provided to cover the experiments online databases (call the computer centre operator on 75011 and ask for the database piquet)
- Backup and Recovery
- Database on Demand
- Middleware on Demand
- Hadoop tutorials
- Organigram
Group sections
| Section/acronym/contact | Description |
|---|---|
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Relational Database services IT-DB-DBR Leader: Eva Dafonte Perez |
The section is responsible for the centralised Oracle relational databases service used by the CERN community and the LHC experiments. |
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Infrastructure, Management & Storage Services IT-DB-IMS Leader: Artur Wiecek |
The section provides platforms for hosting critical engineering and administration services. |
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Scalable Analytics Solutions IT-DB-SAS Leader: Luca Canali |
This section provides Hadoop and analytics activities in the IT-DB group. It works closely with the experiments, accelerators and other... >> more |