Dear John,Thank you in advance for your time. I am bit of a novice in this 
area, so my apologies for the quality of my question. I studied FastBit quite a 
bit in the last couple of days and stepped through the tcapi example in 
particular. Let me refine my question below a bit.
It looks like FastBit needs to serialize the index information into the 
filesystem. This is fine. However, I also noticedthat it also serializes a 
transformation of the original data as well (I was looking at 
fastbit_add_values). Is this true?If so, why is FastBit duplicating the 
original data (in a different form)?  In other words, why can't FastBit use the 
compressed index information to map to the original data?
Thank you,Mazen
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Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 12:27:53 +0000
Subject: [FastBit-users] Does FastBit need to use filesystem?




Hi,I was reading on https://sdm.lbl.gov/~kewu/fastbit/doc/quickstart.html that 
FastBit partitions the data in a directory in the filesystem. Is this the only 
way to use FastBit? In other words, can FastBit be used as an in-memory data 
base? My data is in memory and I don't wish to serialize it to the hard disk.
Thanks,Mazen                                      

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