Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksODT exportBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== 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 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). * **Open Source** * WDB is licensed under [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html|GPL2]] or (at your option) any later version. ===== Get WDB ===== The latest release of WDB is version 0.7.8. WDB has been in limited usage as a forecast archive since version 0.6.0 released in March 2008. ^ WDB ^ | [[http://wdb.met.no/download/wdb-0.7.8.tar.gz|Source Code (tar.gz)]] | To subscribe to release information about WDB, register on Freshmeat and subscribe to [[http://freshmeat.net/projects/wdb|WDB]]. ===== Help ===== The [[Mailing Lists]] should be your first stop if you have problems with WDB. [[http://sourceforge.net/search/?group_id=214820&type_of_search=mlists|Search the mailing list archives]] to see if your problem has been answered before. If you are unable to find a response that helps you, post your questions to the appropriate mailing list (non-subscribers can post). For questions not concerning the development of WDB, use the [[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=wdb-users|WDB Users]] mailing list. ===== Development ===== 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://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=wdb-development|WDB Development]] mailing list. ===== 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~~ wdb/start.1229084314.txt.gz Last modified: 2022-05-31 09:23:29(external edit)