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-====== WDB ======
-WDB is a database system designed to store meteorological, hydrological and oceanographic (MHO) data in a PostgreSQL database management server. The purpose of the WDB system is to improve the quality and effectiveness of IT systems for MHO production by providing a flexible and effective data storage solution for real-time and archive data.
-WDB is an open-source project licensed under [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html|GPL2]] or (at your option) any later version.
-===== Release Status =====
-WDB version 0.7.1 is [[http://wdb.met.no/download/wdb-0.7.1.tar.gz|now available]]. WDB version 0.6.0 was the first version of WDB leveraged into a production system (the terabyte-sized field archive Hindcast). The new version contains interface improvements and several important bug fixes.
-===== WDB Features =====
-  * **Decode and store meteorological forecast fields**
-    * WDB has loading programs to load forecasts, analysis, etc. stored in GRIB1 format. Metadata is provided for HIRLAM fields
-  * **Decode and store oceanographic fields**
-    * WDB has loading programs to load wave and circulation models stored in GRIB1 files. Metadata is provided for WAM 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).
-===== WDB Roadmap =====
-See the [[developers:roadmap]] for a detailed roadmap of WDB, broken down by release. On the executive level, the future development of WDB is targetted toward:
-  * Putting WDB into production in the Hindcast project (multi-terabyte forecast field archive)
-  * 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
-~~NOTOC~~