Secure and Modular Data Portal: Database System to Manage Broadly Classified and Large Scale Data

Abstract

Using various types of broadly classified and large-scale datasets, Ethiopian Construction Design and Supervision Works Corporation (ECDSWC) provides professional services such as engineering studies and design. Storing, managing and sharing dataset within the workgroups and research teams is not an easy task because ECDSWC has not yet implemented database system. To resolve the issues related to data management, this study implements Secured and modular data portal using REST API principle. The data portal is used to manage a wide variety of datasets such as spatial data and its attributes, metadata and other serialized documents that support the business operations of ECDSWC. On the top of data management strategies, the Security in Depth (SiD) mechanism is developed by implementing Unified Identity Authentication Service, which provides multilayered security. The applicability of data portal is demonstrated using datasets obtained from ECDSWC. Furthermore, the accuracy, integrity and privacy of data is evaluated, and system performance is tested through the experiment.

Keywords

• big data management
• integrity
• modules
• performance optimization
• rest api
• security