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+ | **Please Note:** | ||
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+ | This wiki is no longer maintained. The updated project pages for WDB are [[http:// | ||
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====== WDB ====== | ====== WDB ====== | ||
WDB is a database system designed to store meteorological, | WDB is a database system designed to store meteorological, | ||
- | WDB is an open-source project licensed under [[http:// | ||
+ | ===== WDB Features ===== | ||
+ | * **Decode and store meteorological and oceanographic forecast fields** | ||
+ | * WDB has loading programs to load forecasts, analysis, wave and circulations models stored in GRIB1 and FELT format. Metadata is provided for HIRLAM fields | ||
+ | * **Flexible retrieval interface** | ||
+ | * The WDB Call Interface (WCI) allows the extraction of entire fields or points (time-series) from the database using an SQL-based function interface. | ||
+ | * WCI is compatible with C++; it should be usable in C, Java, Perl, Python, and Fortran as well (however, these interfaces are not yet tested). | ||
- | ===== Release Status ===== | + | * **Open Source** |
+ | * WDB is licensed under [[http:// | ||
- | WDB version 0.6.0 is [[http:// | ||
- | ===== WDB Features | + | ===== Get WDB ===== |
- | * **Decode and store meteorological forecast fields** | + | The latest release of WDB is version 0.9.4. |
- | * WDB has loading programs to load forecasts, analysis, etc. stored | + | |
- | * **Decode and store oceanographic fields** | + | ^ WDB Core ^ |
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+ | ^ WDB Loaderbase | ||
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+ | ^ WDB Gribload | ||
+ | | [[http:// | ||
- | * **Flexible retrieval | + | Note: Version 0.8.0 introduced |
- | * The WDB Call Interface (WCI) allows | + | |
- | * WCI is compatible with C++; it should be usable in C, Java, Perl, Python, and Fortran as well (however, these interfaces are not yet tested). | + | |
+ | To subscribe to release information about WDB, register on Freshmeat and subscribe to [[http:// | ||
- | ===== WDB Roadmap ===== | + | ===== Help ===== |
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+ | The [[Mailing Lists]] should be your first stop if you have problems with WDB. | ||
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+ | ===== Development ===== | ||
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+ | WDB is an open-source project; we welcome contributions to the code and we will help you get more involved, if you want to be. Use the [[developers]] section on the left, and post your questions, ideas, and suggestions to the [[http:// | ||
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+ | ===== WDB Roadmap ===== | ||
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+ | See the [[developers: | ||
* Putting WDB into production in the Hindcast project (multi-terabyte forecast field archive) | * Putting WDB into production in the Hindcast project (multi-terabyte forecast field archive) | ||
- | * Creating a load-balancing and fail-over solution for the WDB system | ||
- | * Improving the test framework and documentation | ||
* Improving the performance of the overall system; but in particular the extraction of forecast points from fields in time series | * Improving the performance of the overall system; but in particular the extraction of forecast points from fields in time series | ||
+ | * Improving the test framework and documentation | ||
+ | * Creating a load-balancing and fail-over solution for the WDB system | ||
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