Re: [Pytables-users] Questionnaire

[Nicola L. <ni...@te...>]

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> Following are my plans for the next few months, before releasing the 1.0
> version. Could you respond to these questions by giving a punctuation
> ranging from +5 (I absolutely need that) to 0 (I can pass without this) to
> these planned features?
>
> - Implement enlargeable (i.e. chunked) Array objects.

+2


> - Implement support for Variable Length values (mostly in enlargeable
> Arrays, but possibly also in Tables).

+5 in Tables


> - Implement relationships (apart from the existing hierarchical ones)
> between objects in the object tree.

0


> - Make pytables less memory demanding.

+2


> - Improve speed of opening files in pytables

+2


> - Improve speed of reading and selecting values in Leaf (Table and Array)
> objects.

+4


> Now, answer the next questions. If you don't like to respond all of them,
> this is not necessary.
>
> - What feature do you like more (not necessarily listed before)?

Compactness and speed.


> - What feature do you miss more (not necessarily listed before)?

Automatic indexes, as in relational databases. Don't even know if it's
possible to define them in a general way, though.


> - Do you prefer seeing pytables to become (even) faster or less memory
> demanding?

Faster.


> - Which present limitations do you find more annoying?

Fixed size of columns. ;^)


> - In which field of science or bussiness are you using pytables?

Collection and evaluation of network traffic statistics.


> Ok, that's all. I hope some of you will take some of his precious time to
> fillup the questionnaire. Even only one answer would be much better than
> my sole opinion!.

It surely was *much* less time than the amount you put into PyTables. :^)


- --
"You can't get what you want till you know what you want."
 -- Joe Jackson

Nicola Larosa - ni...@te...


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