Designing a Multi-petabyte Database for LSST

Details Designing a Multi-petabyte Database for LSST Designing a Multi-petabyte Database for LSST

2006-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604112v1

Computer Science

Databases

8 pages. to appear in SPIE

Scientific paper

10.1117/12.671721

The 3.2 giga-pixel LSST camera will produce approximately half a petabyte of archive images every month. These data need to be reduced in under a minute to produce real-time transient alerts, and then added to the cumulative catalog for further analysis. The catalog is expected to grow about three hundred terabytes per year. The data volume, the real-time transient alerting requirements of the LSST, and its spatio-temporal aspects require innovative techniques to build an efficient data access system at reasonable cost. As currently envisioned, the system will rely on a database for catalogs and metadata. Several database systems are being evaluated to understand how they perform at these data rates, data volumes, and access patterns. This paper describes the LSST requirements, the challenges they impose, the data access philosophy, results to date from evaluating available database technologies against LSST requirements, and the proposed database architecture to meet the data challenges.

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