Use Cases
An overview of the use cases and possible deployment scenarios of the
EGI DataHub.
Transparent data access

- Clients use one ore more providers to access data
- Data can be accessed over multiple protocols
Federation of service providers

- Heterogeneous backend storage
- Common interfaces (Web, REST, POSIX, CDMI)
- Common AAI with Check-in
- Discovery of Datasets in the EGI DataHub
Smart caching

- Site A hosts data and computing resources
- Site B hosts only data
- Site X uses data from A and B without pre-staging
- Pre-staging can also be done using APIs
- Data is accessed locally “à la” POSIX with FUSE
Publication of datasets

- PID minting
- Publishing, discovery and access to datasets
Integrating DataHub and EGI Notebooks

Last modified October 31, 2020:
Datahub patch 1 (#120) (a1a5c39)