Why Large Hadron Collider Scientists are Using CouchDB

Re:Why Large Hadron Collider Scientists are Using CouchDB by nivertech on Thursday August 26, 2010 @03:06PM (#1636841)

It's most likely just handles metadata, aggregated data or serves as a proxy to their main DB.

I just can't believe they converted 10 PB of binary data into JSON ;)

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Re:Why Large Hadron Collider Scientists are Using CouchDB by sroecker on Thursday August 26, 2010 @06:12PM (#1637310)

Yep. MongoDB for example is used for their Dataset Bookkeeping Service. JSON is indeed used but only for 'good run' lists.

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Re:Why Large Hadron Collider Scientists are Using CouchDB by simonw on Friday August 27, 2010 @07:24AM (#1638491)

CouchDB has a feature for attaching binary attachments to records.

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Re:Why Large Hadron Collider Scientists are Using CouchDB by Tichy on Thursday August 26, 2010 @07:16PM (#1637461)

Well, storage is basically free these days, right? :-)

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