Why use DBRepo

Digital repositories see themselves more frequently encountered with the problem of making databases accessible in their collection. Challenges revolve around organizing, searching and retrieving content stored within databases and constitute a major technical burden as their internal representation greatly differs from static documents most digital repositories are designed for.

Application Areas

We present a database repository system that allows researchers to ingest data into a central, versioned repository through common interfaces, provides efficient access to arbitrary subsets of data even when the underlying data store is evolving, allows reproducing of query results and supports findable-, accessible-, interoperable- and reusable data.

Features

Built-in search

DBRepo makes your dataset searchable without extra effort: most metadata is generated automatically for data in your databases. The fast and powerful OpenSearch database allows a fast retrieval of any information. Adding semantic mapping through a suggestion-feature, allows machines to properly understand the context of your data Learn more.

Citable datasets

Adopting the recommendations of the RDA-WGDC, arbitrary subsets can be precisely, persistently identified using system-versioned tables of MariaDB and the DataCite schema for minting DOIs. External systems i.e. metadata harvesters (OpenAIRE, Google Datasets) can access these datasets through OAI-PMH, JSON-LD and FAIR Signposting protocols Learn more.

Powerful API for Data Scientists

With our strongly typed Python Library, Data Scientists can import, export and work with data from Jupyter Notebook or Python script, optionally using Pandas DataFrames. For example: the AMQP API Client can collect continuous data from edge devices like sensors and store them asynchronous in DBRepo Learn more.

Cloud Native

Our lightweight Helm chart allows for installations on any cloud provider or private-cloud setting that has an underlying PV storage provider. DBRepo can be installed from the Artifact Hub repository. Databases are managed as MariaDB Galera Cluster with high degree of availability ensuring your data is always accessible Learn more.

Demo Site

We run a small demonstration instance so you can see the latest version of DBRepo in action. The demonstration instance is updated with new releases and should be considered ephemeral.