Overview

This is the full system description from a technical/developer view and continuously being updated as the development progresses.

The remainder of this Sec. is organized as follows: in Authentication we describe how to to accessing important parts of DBRepo. Sec. DBMS describes database management systems on a high-level, Sec. Messaging shows how data streams can be connected with DBRepo for e.g. continuous sensor measurements. Sec. (Meta-)Data describes the data derived from the datasets, Sec. Persistent Identifier introduces how data is precisely identified for e.g. citation using the DOI system. Sec. Search describes how anything in DBRepo can be searched, Sec. Storage shows how datasets can be uploaded/transferred between the services and Sec. User Interface introduces the graphical interface for human interaction as part of virtual research environments.

Architecture

The repository is designed as a service-based architecture to ensure scalability and the utilization of various technologies. The conceptualized microservices (c.f. Fig. 1) operate the basic database operations, data versioning as well as findability, accessability, interoperability and reuseability (FAIR).

Fig. 1: Architecture of the services deployed via Docker Compose