Title :
Genomic data persistency on a NoSQL database system
Author :
Aniceto, Rodrigo ; Xavier, Rene ; Holanda, Maristela ; Walter, Maria Emilia ; Lifschitz, Sergio
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. - CIC, Univ. of Brasilia - UnB, Brasilia, Brazil
Abstract :
Persistency of genomic data brings many research challenges. Among them, alternatives to the commonly used relational database systems should be evaluated, to deal with large volumes of data, in particular writing operations and specific modelling issues. In this paper, we present a NoSQL approach to treat genomic data (Cassandra database system), and evaluate both persistency and I/O operations in experiments with real data. Our results show that this approach enables to store, access and manage genomic data with performance gains, when compared to relational database systems.
Keywords :
SQL; biology computing; cloud computing; genomics; input-output programs; relational databases; Cassandra database system; I/O operations; NoSQL approach; NoSQL database system; cloud computing; genomic data persistency; relational database system; Bioinformatics; Computers; Data mining; Data models; Genomics; Relational databases; Biological Data; Cassandra; Cloud Computing; DataStax; NoSQL;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Belfast
DOI :
10.1109/BIBM.2014.6999304
