Databases & Analytics

The Database and Analytics Group is responsible for service delivery and evolution of databases, data stores, monitoring, messaging, streaming, analytics and data visualisation solutions for the different CERN communities.

Analytics, Streaming and Monitoring (IT-DA-ASM)

Section Leader: Ignacio Coterillo Coz

The section provides Messaging, data Streaming, Monitoring platforms and services, and frontend analytics services for the different CERN communities to facilitate data collection, transport, manipulation, processing, interactive data analysis and central reporting solutions.

The section also provides support to the group services and activities in the External Clouds Service (Oracle Cloud).

Database Services (IT-DA-DB)

Section Leader: Miroslav Potocky

This section provides database instances, instance management, administration and troubleshooting for several types of relational database software.

This service operates on several involvement levels ranging from fully administered, enterprise vendor supported DB instances to on-demand instances empowering users to perform administrative and troubleshooting task on their own while deployment, backup & recovery and upgrade/patching is provided automatically.

Data Stores (IT-DA-DS)

Section Leader: Pedro Andrade

The section is responsible for providing different types of data store services (file stores, document stores) for the entire CERN community. The following services are currently available to users: OpenSearch, Hadoop, HDFS and HBase. The section also runs the NetApp storage service.