Speaker
Dirk Duellmann
(CERN)
Description
The CORAL package is the LCG Persistency Framework foundation for accessing
relational databases. From the start CORAL has been designed to facilitate the
deployment of the LHC experiment database applications in a distributed
computing environment. This contribution focuses on the description of CORAL
features for distributed database deployment.
In particular we cover
- improvements to database service scalability by client side connection
management
- improved application reliability provided by automated reconnection and fail-
over strategies
- a secure authentication and authorisation scheme integrated with existing
grid services
We will summarize the deployment experience from several experiment
productions using the distributed database infrastructure, which is now
available in LCG. Finally, we present perspectives for future developments in
this area.
Primary author
Giacomo Govi
(CERN)
