Petabyte data

[paulanon]

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 at ways run analysis and uploading the result as an associated content to the original data.  This would be done manually at first, but interested in automating this well and providing custom views to these data (reports).

My first question is if Alfresco can be configured to handle massive amounts of data.  I tried the community download and it doesn't appear to have file size limit.  But wondering about disk limits.

Thanks in advance.

[mrogers]

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.

[paulanon]

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.