Fig 1.
A data commons or application in a data ecosystem can export a PFB file and the same or another data commons or application can import it.
Table 1.
A comparison of Avro versus Protobuf for managing biomedical data.
Fig 2.
The graphical representation of PFB schema for a data model with only a Demographic node.
Table 2.
Import time comparison between Gen3 Import and PFB.
* denotes that the submission did not complete and would take over 40 hours.
Table 3.
Export time comparison between PFB and Gen3.
Table 4.
Size comparison between JSON and PFB, [c] denotes the data was compressed.
Table 5.
Size comparison of existing commons between SQL dump and PFB dump.
Table 6.
Read/write speed comparison between PFB and JSON from/to disk.