by Angela Guess
Brianna McKenna of Computer Weekly reports, “High-energy physicists working at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Switzerland are benefiting from a NoSQL database management system that gives them unified access to data from a slew of sources. Valentin Kuznetsov, a research associate and computer specialist at Cornell University, is a member of a team providing data management to the CMS Cern project. It built a system using MongoDB in preference to relational database technologies and other non-relational options.”
She goes on, “The CMS (pictured) is one of two particle physics detectors at Cern. It collects data from the LHC experiment that reproduces the big bang that kick-started the universe, designed to gain an understanding of how matter and force particles get their mass. More than 3,000 physicists from 183 institutions representing 38 countries are involved in the design, construction and maintenance of the CMS experiments. Cornell is one of many institutions worldwide that contribute to the LHC experiments at Cern. Kuznetsov, a physicist and software engineer who has worked at Cern in the past, is involved in the data management group at the centre.”
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