A secure data storage and data management service, the Data Store uses iRODS open source data management software.
Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS)
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The Data Store gives you great flexibility and granular control over your data.
Whether your data are small or large, structured or unstructured, the Data Store is designed for collaboration and sharing while ensuring security, privacy, and sovereignty.
Managed file transfers (MFTs) ensure security, data integrity (check-sums), and optional end-to-end encryption.
Choose different interfaces — from web services, to mountable file systems, to high-speed command line transfers — your data are always connected to interactive analyses in CyVerse or elsewhere on the cloud.
iRODS Integration Layer
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Getting Started
To learn how to use the Data Store, see the Data Store Guide.
- Managed File Transfers
- Adding Metadata
- Sharing data privately or publicly
- Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)
Video Playlist for Managing Your Data in CyVerse
Key Features
- 5 GB of storage with free Basic account (increase your storage with a subscription)
- Parallel data transfers for fast uploads and downloads (see Table below)
- Syncing and checksum handling for partial and interrupted transfers
- Safe, secure storage accessible with a single authenticated login
- Set and control permissions to access data, workflows, analyses results, and data visualizations
- Browse, access, and download public data without an account for free (no egress fees)
Make your data/analysis public and more FAIR for research agreements around open data
Performance Metrics
Table: Transfer speeds for uploads and downloads to and from the CyVerse Data Store (University of Arizona) to partners at Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) UT Austin, and University of Indiana Jetstream2 (JS2) Cloud (Bloomington, Indiana), and commercial cloud service providers Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform.
| Transfer Direction | File Size | CyVerse Transfer Duration* (sec) | ||||
| CyVerse | TACC | JS2 | AWS | GCP | ||
| FROM Data Store (download) | 10.24 kB | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 10.49 MB | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |
| 10.74 GB | 26 | 50 | 19 | 31 | 28 | |
| TO Data Store (Upload) | 10.24 kB | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 10.49 MB | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| 10.74 GB | 40 | 76 | 49 | 61 | 55 | |
* Duration represents rounded, geometric mean, n=30 runs; Source: T. Edgin, CyVerse Core Software Engineer, April 2020.