The link that you've given is fastbit and not for hdf5- fastquery. I guess 
fastquery wont be out that soon.

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On Aug 14, 2010, at 6:26 PM, "Werner Benger" <[email protected]> wrote:

> https://codeforge.lbl.gov/frs/?group_id=44
> 
> should do?
> 
> 
>    Werner
> 
> 
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:00:57 +0200, Roy Mendelssohn 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On the internet there is a reference to HDF5-FastQuery that uses FastBits 
>> within HDF5 files.  But finding the actual API has eluded me.  Does anyone 
>> know how to actually get this API?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -Roy M.
>> 
>> On Aug 13, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Rodel Piano wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Thats glad to know. I have explored fastbit, but fastbit requires that the 
>>> file be converted from hdf5 to binary file. With that in mind, would it be 
>>> ideal to just create the file in binary in the first place to reduce 
>>> overhead. And use fastbit itself instead of hdf5
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On Aug 14, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Quincey Koziol <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 13, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Werner Benger wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> HDF5 doesn't support searching within datasets. You might want to look 
>>>>> into something like Fastbit:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/5/1/fastbit-an-efficient-compressed-bitmap-index-technology.html
>>>>> http://crd.lbl.gov/~kewu/fastbit/doc/index.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is an addon-library which builds indices on HDF5 datasets allowing 
>>>>> to select certain regions based on indexed properties.
>>>> 
>>>>    We (The HDF Group) have just had a proposal funded that will integrate 
>>>> FastBit [style] indexing more tightly with HDF5.  The work is scheduled 
>>>> for a little while from now (year 2 or 3 of the proposal, I believe), but 
>>>> I just wanted to let people know that this functionality will be coming...
>>>> 
>>>>    Quincey
>>>> 
>>>>>    Werner
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:40:12 +0200, Rodel Piano <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>>    But that approach would be slow right? assuming that we are dealing 
>>>>> with the worst possible volume of data.
>>>>> 
>>>>> From: Francesc Alted <[email protected]>
>>>>> To: HDF Users Discussion List <[email protected]>
>>>>> Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 10:30:56 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Hdf-forum] Select query options
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2010/8/13 Rodel Piano <[email protected]>
>>>>> Thanks for thr reply Francesc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My codes are in C. Lets say my records are about 12million. I cant use 
>>>>> hyperslab coz i wont know which region to look for. What is the expected 
>>>>> result of my query is only 10 records out 12 million.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you don't know which region you should look, then you should look into 
>>>>> your complete table.  Just use hyperslabs for reading your dataset in 
>>>>> small chunks (my suggestion is that these chunks should fit your CPU 
>>>>> cache, for improved performance).
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Francesc Alted
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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