StorageBIT - A Metadata-aware, Extensible, Semantic and Hierarchical Database for Biosignals

Carlos Carreiras, Hugo Silva, André Lourenço, Ana Fred

2013

Abstract

Acquisition of biomedical data is, nowadays, widespread, originating a deluge of data that may contain relevant and interesting information for health-care professionals, biosignal researchers, and the individuals themselves. This creates the need to organize the information in a structured way, facilitating collaboration and research efforts. Therefore, for that purpose, this paper investigates database systems and file formats, discussing current technologies, requirements and possible implementations. These implementations were put through a benchmarking package to analyze their insertion, query and update performance. A final approach combining the use of HDF5, a hierarchical file format for numerical data, and MongoDB, a NoSQL database, is proposed, as it showed the best combination of properties from the tested solutions.

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in Harvard Style

Carreiras C., Silva H., Lourenço A. and Fred A. (2013). StorageBIT - A Metadata-aware, Extensible, Semantic and Hierarchical Database for Biosignals . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-37-2, pages 65-74. DOI: 10.5220/0004241400650074

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf13,
author={Carlos Carreiras and Hugo Silva and André Lourenço and Ana Fred},
title={StorageBIT - A Metadata-aware, Extensible, Semantic and Hierarchical Database for Biosignals},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={65-74},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004241400650074},
isbn={978-989-8565-37-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013)
TI - StorageBIT - A Metadata-aware, Extensible, Semantic and Hierarchical Database for Biosignals
SN - 978-989-8565-37-2
AU - Carreiras C.
AU - Silva H.
AU - Lourenço A.
AU - Fred A.
PY - 2013
SP - 65
EP - 74
DO - 10.5220/0004241400650074