Re: [galaxy-dev] What is the correct place under Galaxy for a database that's created by a tool?

2014-06-17 Thread Björn Grüning
Hi Melissa, Am 17.06.2014 01:07, schrieb Melissa Cline: Hi folks, Hopefully this is a quick question. I'm working on a set of tools that will fire off a VM from within Galaxy and will then communicate with the VM. The VM will create a local database. Are we talking here about a local

Re: [galaxy-dev] What is the correct place under Galaxy for a database that's created by a tool?

2014-06-17 Thread Melissa Cline
Good thing to clarify: this is a tool-specific database, created by tools that are running inside Galaxy but that should persist after the individual tools are done with their execution. On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Björn Grüning bjoern.gruen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Melissa, Am

Re: [galaxy-dev] What is the correct place under Galaxy for a database that's created by a tool?

2014-06-17 Thread Björn Grüning
Hi, Am 17.06.2014 21:25, schrieb Melissa Cline: Good thing to clarify: this is a tool-specific database, created by tools that are running inside Galaxy but that should persist after the individual tools are done with their execution. Should it persist as output data or forever even if I

Re: [galaxy-dev] What is the correct place under Galaxy for a database that's created by a tool?

2014-06-17 Thread Melissa Cline
Hi Björn, The database should persist forever, even if the workflow is restarted. I'm not sure about the distinction between forever and output data, but the database should remain in place until the user takes specific action to make it go away. If you reload a tool, it will reload/extend the

[galaxy-dev] What is the correct place under Galaxy for a database that's created by a tool?

2014-06-16 Thread Melissa Cline
Hi folks, Hopefully this is a quick question. I'm working on a set of tools that will fire off a VM from within Galaxy and will then communicate with the VM. The VM will create a local database. The vision is that this won't be a shared database; in a shared Galaxy instance, each user will

Re: [galaxy-dev] What is the correct place under Galaxy for a database that's created by a tool?

2014-06-16 Thread Peter Cock
Hi Melissa, Galaxy expects history datasets to be read only, so the best option (in term of this data model) might be a (read only) SQLite database (since it is just a single file on disk). They could have multiple such databases in their history or histories. If you want the user to have just