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-====== WDB ======+====== WDB - Weather and Water Database ======
  
-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.+Welcome to the **WDB** project's home page. 
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 +**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 the backbone of [[http://www.yr.no|yr.no]]; Scandinavia's largest weather site.
  
 The WDB system consists of a database server system including a read/write interface to the database, a set of loading programs for inserting various types of MHO data into the system, and a http product generator. The WDB system consists of a database server system including a read/write interface to the database, a set of loading programs for inserting various types of MHO data into the system, and a http product generator.
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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://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=wdb-development|WDB Development]] mailing list. 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.
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-===== WDB Roadmap ===== 
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-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: 
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-  * 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 
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