Hi Andrew,
We're working with the FastBit/FastQuery team on a joint project and
are planning to extend the HDF5 API to include additions for indexing.
However, this is still part of our future work, so I don't have a firm plan for
this currently.
Quincey
On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Werner Benger wrote:
> This is not directly an answer to your question, but I've used HDF5 Fastbit in
> the past. By that time it was C++ Code and had portability issues to get it
> running under Windows, so I stopped using it. I haven't had contact with the
> developers since then. But yes, it would be a highly interesting technology.
>
> Werner
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:16:42 -0500, Andrew Collette
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> While looking into indexing technologies for HDF5 I ran across this page:
>>
>> http://www-vis.lbl.gov/Events/SC05/HDF5FastQuery/
>>
>> which indicated that a FastBit-based query system was being added to
>> HDF5. Do you know the status of this project? Is there a future HDF5
>> version targeted to include this feature?
>>
>> In the Python world we have the excellent PyTables system for fast
>> querying of 1D HDF5 datasets of compound-type. I'm curious if the
>> FastQuery project has similar aims and if/when it will be available.
>> Presumably it will be part of the HDF5 C API?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Andrew Collette
>>
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