About Databases...

[Robert Kern]

andrea_gavana at tin.it wrote:
> Hello NG,
> 
>    I am still quite a newbie with Python (I intensely use wxPython, anyway).
> I would like to know what are, in your opinions, the best/faster databases
> that I could use in Python (and, of course, I should be able to "link" everything
> with a wxPython GUI)? Specifically, I work on Reservoir Simulation, and
> usually I have to store a discrete/huge amount of data (it depends on the
> oil field). As you may have understood, I know almost NOTHING about databases
> ;-)
> In general, my data will be numeric (floats, integers). Will a binary storage
> (if it is possible) reduce the size of the DB? And what about speed in storing/retrieving
> data?

If your data is numeric, you'll probably want to use PyTables.

http://pytables.sourceforge.net/html/WelcomePage.html

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Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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