Database Futures Workshop

Session

Requirements I

6 Jun 2011, 11:00

IT Auditorium (CERN)

Conveners

Requirements I

• Tony Cass (CERN)
• Katarzyna Maria Dziedziniewicz (CERN)

14. Database services for ALICE Detector Control System

Peter Chochula (CERN)

06/06/2011, 11:00

We describe the architecture and implementation of the ALICE DCS database service. The whole dataflow from devices to the ORACLE database as well as the interface to online and offline data consumers is briefly overviewed. The operational experience with the present configuration as well as future plans and requirements are summarized in this talk.

15. Use of MySQL in the ALICE data-acquisition system.

Mr Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)

06/06/2011, 11:30

MySQL has been in use to store and access structured information for the ALICE data-acquisition since 2004. It copes with the implementation of 9 distinct data repositories (configurations, logs, etc) for the online subsystems implemented at the experimental area, all of them having different I/O patterns and requirements. We will review the architecture, performance, features, and future...

12. Database choices for CERN Drupal service

Tim Bell (CERN)

06/06/2011, 12:00

Requirements

CERN is deploying a new content management approach based on Drupal (http://drupal.org) for the main www.cern.ch site, departments and experiments. This talk will review the requirements and options for the database part of the deployment to create an infrastructure capable of supporting millions of hits per day.