Mercator Workspace

This repository references everything needed to build various tools related to the Spatial Index.

Mercator: Spatial Index

Mercator is a spatial volumetric index for the Human Brain Project. It is a component of the Knowledge Graph service, which provides the spatial anchoring for the metadata registered as well as processes the volumetric queries.

It is build on top of the Iron Sea database toolkit.

Iron Sea: Database Toolkit

Iron Sea provides a set of database engine bricks, which can be combined and applied on arbitrary data structures.

Unlike a traditional database, it does not assume a specific physical structure for the tables nor the records, but relies on the developper to provide a set of extractor functions which are used by the specific indices provided.

This enables the index implementations to be agnostic from the underlying data structure, and re-used.

Requirements

Software

• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org

Quick start

• Clone the workspace, which will take care of bringing all the repositories needed.

  git clone --recurse git@gitlab.epfl.ch:DIAS/PROJECTS/HBP-SP5/mercator.git
  

  The following steps assume the working directory is the root of the mercator repository.

• [Optional] Create 3 datasets, of 1, 10 and 100 features respectively, each with 1000 positions:

  cd mercator_data_generator
  cargo run --release -- 1 10 100
  

• Index the data:

  cd mercator_indexer
  for f in ../mercator_data_generator/1*.json
  do
  	    ln -s $f
  done
  cargo run --release -- 1k 10k 100k
  

• Run the Spatial Index, while providing the path to the datasets.

  cd mercator_service
  RUST_LOG="warn,actix_web=info,mercator_service=trace" \
    MERCATOR_DATA="../mercator_indexer/" \
    MERCATOR_ALLOWED_ORIGINS="http://localhost:3200" \
    cargo run --release
  

Documentation

For more information, please refer to the documentation.

If you want to build the documentation and access it locally, you can use:

cargo doc --open

Acknowledgements

This open source software code was developed in part or in whole in the Human Brain Project, funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under the Specific Grant Agreement No. 785907 (Human Brain Project SGA2).