DB4SCI Design Goals

Deployment

Docker install is the main requirement for DB4SCI. At the Hutch DB4SCI runs on a dedicated physical server with a few hundred terabytes of NVMe SSD storage. The system runs Ubuntu 16.04 and storage is configured with ZFS. This configuration is supports more than 50 database instances. DB4SCI could also be deployed on EC2 instances in AWS or in other clouds.