Have you tried making a RAM disk to store the results? That way you can
keep everything in memory and still support fastbits format.

Cheers

Teryl
On Jul 4, 2015 2:00 PM, "Justin Swanhart" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> John can correct me if I'm wrong but I think it is because the indexes can
> be binned, so the actual value must be retrieved for the column.
>
> --justin
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 4, 2015, at 9:47 AM, Mazen Kachmar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> 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 noticed
> that 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
>
> ------------------------------
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> 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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