<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Heather, take a look at <a href="http://www.pytables.org/moin">http://www.pytables.org/moin</a>. I've not ever used it, so I can not speak to its quality or speed.<div><br></div><div>When I was at JPL in the early '90s and NASA was planning for the Earth Observation System, they were trying to figure out how to deal with petabytes of data a day. Not an easy problem two decades ago.</div><div><br></div><div>Rick<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 20, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Kevin Turner wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Thursday, October 20, 2011 3:29 PM, "Ryan Roser"<br><<a href="mailto:ryanroser@gmail.com">ryanroser@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">a medium amount of data, 100's-1000's of GBs<br></blockquote><br>I like how you describe a few terabytes as "a medium amount of data."<br>_______________________________________________<br>Portland mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Portland@python.org">Portland@python.org</a><br>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>