Additional Features¶
Beyond its core acquisition, dissemination, and portal services, OpenECPDS provides a number of additional platform features.
Notification System¶
Provides an embedded MQTT broker to publish notifications and an MQTT client to subscribe to data providers. This enables real-time data distribution and automated acquisition. See the MQTT Notification System.
Data Compression¶
Supports various algorithms to reduce dissemination time and enable faster access to data:
- lzma
- zip
- gzip
- bzip2
- lbzip2
- lz4
- snappy
Data Checksumming¶
- MD5 — for data integrity checks on the remote sites.
- ADLER32 — for data integrity checks in the Data Store.
Garbage Collection¶
Automatically removes expired data, with no limit on expiry dates.
Data Backup¶
Can be configured to map data sets in OpenECPDS to existing archiving systems.