Runtime View

RhyDB-LAPIS consists of three main components:

• LAPIS: A web service wrapping the RhyDB API.
  • It maps the request to a corresponding RhyDB query.
• RhyDB API: The query engine exposed as a web service.
  • It accepts RhyDB queries and returns the results. A RhyDB query specifies
    • a filter expression for which samples should be considered,
    • an action what kind of data should be returned (details, aggregated data, etc.).
  • The RhyDB API regularly checks for new serialized states of the database (the output of the preprocessing) and loads them into memory.
• RhyDB Preprocessing: A command line tool that preprocesses the data for RhyDB. It builds a database from the input data and serializes it to disk.
  • The RhyDB Preprocessing has to be started by the maintainer of the instance (or e.g. a cronjob). It is not a continuously running process.