OGDI DataLab v4 v5 Services

The current (v5) version of OGDI DataLab at a minimum requires the following services:

1 compute instance (Windows Azure Hosted Service) – By default DataBrowser now runs in the same Web Role as the DataService (1/3 Azure cost savings). DataService is on port :8080, but having a dedicated Web Role for DataService is still possible with minimal code to reconfigure

1 Azure Table storage account (1 required, 2 or more recommended) – 1 for the catalogue configuration (meta-data, analytics, configuration), and 1 for the data itself (1st container). Remember that a container has its own name/key that could be given to different departments (data owners) – and you can then aggregate the datasets across all containers in the data service.

You can see most of the info on what’s new/changed vs the V1/V2 codebase here: https://github.com/openlab/DataLab/wiki/OGDI-DataLab-v5-Updates-and-Improvements