topic Petabyte data in Alfresco Archive

Petabyte data

paulanon — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:19:48 GMT

Hello there. Fairly new to ECMS. And I can't seem to search the forum… I hope I'm posting to the right location.I'm interested in managing document and mostly non-document content. Specifically scientific data that can be 1GB to 15GB each. And there can be many generated per day. Also looking

Re: Petabyte data

mrogers — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:06:00 GMT

There is no limit to the content size unless you configure a quota or content limit.

Disk size limits may be an issue, but modern filesystems will handle multi GB files without problem.

Your analysis could be triggered by the upload, for example by a rule. And that rule could then file results in whatever way makes sense, there are lots of options.

For example I have a site in alfresco that I load large video presentations of about 1GB. They automatically get metadata extracted and converted to other formats like mp4.

I've also seen a demo of a use of alfresco to store medical scans in DICOM format from (I presume) a MRI scanner. The content is then tagged, and processed and made available to the doctors that need access to that information.

Re: Petabyte data

paulanon — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 01:27:48 GMT

Thank you for the quick reply. Does this mean that alfresco is bound to the file system and thus limited to say 8TB on a single hard drive? I did see something about mongodb and maybe GridFS (my knowledge of mongodb is very limited).

And thank you for providing examples and how it can be automated. I'm guessing we can make custom workflows, which can trigger processing/analysis (to our application .exe). If you have links to these case studies, I'd be interested in learning more about them.