Knowledge Network

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knb (knowledge network for biocomplexity) Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R
Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB, NCEAS / UC Santa Barbara) Storagefails: quotainstitution?card?Rper-object-cap

knb (knowledge network for biocomplexity) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

knb.ecoinformatics.org/ · rejected-provider · storage/knb · JSON · compare

Free tier	5 GB free per user — two orders of magnitude short. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	5 GB free per user — two orders of magnitude short.
Notes	5 GB free per user — two orders of magnitude short.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	knb.ecoinformatics.org/	5 GB free per user — two orders of magnitude short.
2026-10-21	knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/d1/mn/v2/node	cited as the basis of the rejection: 5 GB free per user — two orders of magnitude short.

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "5 GB free per user — two orders of magnitude short.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded

Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB, NCEAS / UC Santa Barbara) Storage

fails: quotainstitution?card?Rper-object-cap

knb.ecoinformatics.org · academic · storage/knowledge-network-for-biocomplexity · JSON · compare

Free tier	5 GB free per user ('Store up to 5GB of data for free'), with DOIs for permanent publication. Well under the 500 GB bar and with no per-record-unlimited escape hatch published. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	5 GB free per user ('Store up to 5GB of data for free'), with DOIs for permanent publication
Egress	Free public downloads with no metering; metadata is harvestable.
Identity	institution (placeholder) inferred from the category 'academic'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence
Limits	per-object-cap 5 GB account cap source Per-account 5 GB aggregate is the binding constraint; ecological/environmental scope; EML metadata required.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	Web upload plus desktop metadata editors (Morpho), EML metadata standard, DOI minting; a Metacat REST API exists for reads.
Composes with	5 GB x accounts; no published per-dataset unlimited tier, so it does not chain to 500 GB without account multiplication.
Reliability	Long-lived (NCEAS, since 2003) and stable, but the 5 GB account cap makes it a metadata/DOI service rather than a bulk store.
Notes	5 GB free per user ('Store up to 5GB of data for free'), with DOIs for permanent publication. Well under the 500 GB bar and with no per-record-unlimited escape hatch published.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 5.0 GB

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	knb.ecoinformatics.org	'Store up to 5GB of data for free. The KNB also supports DOIs to permanently publish your data sets.'
2026-10-21	knb.ecoinformatics.org/submit	live submit path

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "5 GB free per user ('Store up to 5GB of data for free'), with DOIs for permanent publication. Well under the 500 GB bar and with no per-record-unlimited escape hatch published.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted