Home / Storage
Borealis (Canadian Dataverse Repository, University of Toronto / Scholars Portal)
borealisdata.caAcademic repository / Dataverse 6.8.4 SPstorage/borealisJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- No quota object. Not a policy number either — nothing published.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported5 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No quota object. Not a policy number either — nothing published. 24,727 datasets across 1,858 collections, all unmetered by the platform. unit unlimited; metered on unstated |
|---|
| Price | none stated |
|---|
| Identity | email email |
|---|
| Egress | Cloudflare-fronted; answered the version API in 0.77 s, the fastest of the six majors tested. |
|---|
| Per-object cap | not stated |
|---|
| Retention | not stated |
|---|
| Interface | rest REST (native Dataverse API v1), SWORD |
|---|
| Tooling | curl against /api/; same client code as Harvard |
|---|
| Composes with | Best combination: no quota object AND a working native email signup AND the largest live dataset base outside Harvard. A single account is not byte-bounded by any number the service can report. |
|---|
| Reliability | Scheduled upgrade to 6.12.1 with 7h downtime announced on the signup page itself — reads may be affected during maintenance windows. |
|---|
| Parsed numbers | |
|---|
Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|
| 2026-10-21 | borealisdata.ca/api/info/version | {"status":"OK","data":{"version":"v6.8.4-SP","build":null}} |
| 2026-10-21 | borealisdata.ca/api/dataverses/:root/storage/quota?showInher | {"status":"OK","data":{"message":"No quota defined for this collection"}} |
| 2026-10-21 | borealisdata.ca/dataverseuser.xhtml?editMode=CREATE | HTTP 200, form served; fields dataverseUserForm:accountInfoView:{email,affiliation,userName,password}; none carry a required or aria-required attribute |
| 2026-10-21 | borealisdata.ca/technology/ | 'Users who wish to create collections and/or datasets and upload data and metadata must have a user acco...' (account required, no affiliation stated) |
| 2026-10-21 | borealisdata.ca/api/search?q=*&type=dataset&per_page=1 | 24,727 datasets; type=dataverse — 1,858 |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "egress","why": "No quota object. Not a policy number either — nothing published. 24,727 datasets across 1,858 collections, all unmetered by the platform.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
|---|
Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read