Massive Multi-Omics Microbiome Database (M3DB): A Scalable Data Warehouse and Analytics Platform for Microbiome Datasets

Massive Multi-Omics Microbiome Database (M3DB) is a data warehousing and analytics solution designed to handle diverse, complex, and unprecedented volumes of sequence and taxonomic classification data obtained in a typical microbiome project using NGS technologies. M3DB is a platform developed on Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive and PostgreSQL technologies. It enables users to store, analyze and manage high volumes of data, and also provides them the ability to query it in a fast and efficient manner. The M3DB framework includes command line tools to process and store microbiome data, along with an easy-to-use web-interface for uploading, querying, analyzing and visualizing the data and/or results. Availability: The source-code of M3DB is freely available for download at http://www.github.com/nisheth/M3DB.