intellabs/vdms repository overview

This docker image is for Intel Lab's Visual Data Management System⁠ (VDMS). VDMS is a storage solution for efficient access of big-”visual”-data that aims to achieve cloud scale by searching for relevant visual data via visual metadata stored as a graph and enabling machine friendly enhancements to visual data for faster access. We use an in-persistent-memory graph database developed in our team called Persistent Memory Graph Database (PMGD) as the metadata tier and we are exploring the use of an array data manager, TileDB and other formats for images, visual descriptors, and videos as part of our Visual Compute Library (VCL). VDMS is run as a server listening for client requests and we provide client side bindings to enable communication between (Python, C++) applications and the server. Hence, it also has a Request Server component defined to implement the VDMS API, handle concurrent client requests, and coordinate the request execution across its metadata and data components to return unified responses. This project aims to research the use of a scalable multi-node graph based metadata store as part of a hierarchical storage framework specifically aimed at processing visual data, and also it includes an investigation into the right hardware and software optimizations to store and efficiently access large scale (pre-processed) visual data.

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• v2.12.0 (latest)⁠

⁠Quick reference

• Supported platform and OS: Intel® Xeon® platform, Debian 12-slim

• Usage instructions: VDMS Docker Wiki⁠

• File issues: VDMS Issues⁠

⁠License

This docker installs third party components licensed under various open source licenses. The terms under which those components may be used and distributed can be found with the license document that is provided with those components. Please familiarize yourself with those terms to ensure your distribution of those components complies with the terms of those licenses.

VDMS-Docker-Dependencies⁠ provides sources for GPL/LGPL/MPL components.

As for any pre-built image usage, it is the image user's responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses and potential fees for all software contained within. We will have no indemnity or warranty coverage from suppliers.