Re: [Monetdb-developers] Information request

2011-11-21 Thread luca paganotti
Hi Fabian, the link you gave me is rather outdated, take a look at http://docs.eiffel.com/book/solutions/eiffelstore for the current docs about eiffelstore. Surely I'm talking about interfacing with monetdb which for me is a black box, I don't know its internals. But taking for example the matiss

Re: [Monetdb-developers] Information request

2011-11-20 Thread Ying Zhang
>> What you need is to first use the mclient interface with the sql support to >> perform some preliminary tests for your application, and then hook your >> applications to monetdb by opening a connection and issuing sql statements >> to load and manipulate your data. A very important added bonu

Re: [Monetdb-developers] Information request

2011-11-20 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 20-11-2011 09:50:31 +0100, luca paganotti wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Fabian Groffen <[1]fabian.grof...@cwi.nl> > wrote: >> We prefer bindings to be written in the language itself, as much as >> possible.  I'm almost sure wrapping the MAPI C-API in Eiffel will result >> in somethin

Re: [Monetdb-developers] Information request

2011-11-20 Thread luca paganotti
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 19-11-2011 22:12:09 +0100, luca paganotti wrote: > > Was not my intention to use a a dbms as a c library. My interest in the C > > API is only from an application perspective. I can make you a couple > > examples: 1) let's say I want to w

Re: [Monetdb-developers] Information request

2011-11-19 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 19-11-2011 22:12:09 +0100, luca paganotti wrote: > Was not my intention to use a a dbms as a c library. My interest in the C > API is only from an application perspective. I can make you a couple > examples: 1) let's say I want to write a unix daemon that searches the web > for METAR files. When

Re: [Monetdb-developers] Information request

2011-11-19 Thread luca paganotti
Hi lefteris, (is this your name?) some comments below. On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Lefteris wrote: > Hi Luca, > > monetdb is for sure the right choice for such application that you are > describing. Good to know. > Monetdb is a database system, composed of many software layers that > o

Re: [Monetdb-developers] Information request

2011-11-19 Thread Lefteris
Hi Luca, monetdb is for sure the right choice for such application that you are describing. Monetdb is a database system, composed of many software layers that optimize the execution of a task in mane levels. As such, you should use monetdb as a database system and not as a library that provides a

Re: [Monetdb-developers] Information request

2011-11-18 Thread luca paganotti
Hi Fabian, happy to ear you so soon, I'm requested to build a huge database containing meteo observations. There are about 200 meteostations in a given geographic area. Observations are collected by a system that after some software procedures (aggregation, interpolation, ...) generates some mapp

Re: [Monetdb-developers] Information request

2011-11-17 Thread Fabian Groffen
Hi Luca, On 18-11-2011 08:20:11 +0100, luca paganotti wrote: > I'm interested in learning more about monetdb, but I've some difficulties in > finding the informations I'm searching for. > > I would like to learn more about the C API, so I'm searching for some coding > examples. The only thing I f