atlas-python

Thousands of NetCDF datasets in one immutable file. It sits on local disk or on object storage: S3, GCS, Azure, or HTTP. A Rust core, five operations, and one command.

pip install atlas-python

atlas create /data/nc /data/collection
atlas ls     /data/collection
atlas show   /data/collection 2024-01.nc
atlas info   /data/collection
atlas rm     /data/collection 2024-02.nc 2024-03.nc

python -m atlas runs the same command without a PATH lookup, for a shell that cannot find atlas.

Extra Install Adds
cloud pip install "atlas-python[cloud]" S3 / GCS / Azure / HTTP via obstore

numpy, xarray, and dask install automatically.

Five operations

The same five as a library:

import atlas

atlas.create("/data/nc", "/data/collection")   # from a directory of NetCDF files
atlas.list_datasets("/data/collection")        # ['2024-01.nc', '2024-02.nc', '2024-03.nc']
atlas.describe("/data/collection", "2024-01.nc")  # types, shapes, attrs, statistics
atlas.info("/data/collection")                 # counts, size, codec, statistics
atlas.remove("/data/collection", ["2024-02.nc"])  # updates the mask

Every one takes a local path, a URL, or an obstore handle:

atlas ls s3://my-bucket/collections/2024 --region eu-west-1

atlas.list_datasets("s3://my-bucket/collections/2024", region="eu-west-1")

Two things to internalise

One write builds a collection. There is no append, no in-place update, and no flush. The file has a valid trailer, or it is no collection. To change a dataset, rebuild the collection. remove is the one exception. It writes a small mask file, and never touches the container. It therefore reclaims no space, and moves no ordinal.

Python writes. Rust reads array data. From Python you build a collection and read its metadata. That is the dataset names, the array types, the shapes, the chunk shapes, the fill values, the attributes, and the statistics of the write. There is no read_array. Array values come from the Rust API.

That split makes the read side free. The footer an open already fetched answers every metadata call. A catalogue of a thousand datasets is therefore one request.

What show gives you

$ atlas show /data/collection 2024-01.nc
dataset 2024-01.nc {
dimensions:
	lat = 4 ;
	lon = 6 ;
variables:
	float32 temperature(lat, lon) ;
		temperature:_FillValue = nan ;
		temperature:units = "celsius" ;
		// stats: count=24  min=1.0  max=24.0
	string station(lat) ;
		// stats: count=4  min="a"  max="d"

// global attributes:
		:month = 1 ;

// ordinal 0, segment bytes 8..1691
}

The shape follows ncdump -h. It adds the statistics of the write: the minimum, the maximum, and how many elements are missing. --json on any read command gives the same content as a structure.

Ingest

create scans a directory for .nc, .nc4, .cdf, and .netcdf, and descends into every subdirectory. It sorts them, and writes one dataset per file, named after the file. Each coordinate and data variable becomes an array. Each variable attribute becomes a per-array attribute. _FillValue becomes the fill of the array.

Each file opens with dask chunking. A file far larger than memory therefore streams block by block. --chunk-size sets the block budget, and defaults to 128 MiB. It is about the memory ceiling per variable. Those blocks also become the stored chunk shape.

Nothing at the destination is readable until every file lands. A failure part-way leaves no collection, and not a partial one. on_error="skip", or --skip-errors, trades that for progress.

Atlas cannot store every numpy dtype, and bool is the common case. One such variable fails the whole file by default. on_unsupported="skip", or --skip-unsupported, leaves out that one array and lands the rest.

--log-file PATH, or atlas.log_to_file(path), appends every error and warning to a file, each with its reason and the file it came from.

dtypes

numpy atlas
int / uint widths, float32, float64 the same
datetime64[ns] timestamp_nanoseconds
timedelta64[*] int64 nanoseconds, plus a unit marker
object / S / U string

bool, binary, and the list types work as an attribute value. No one of them works yet as an array element type.

Documentation

The full docs sit at https://maris-development.github.io/atlas/. They hold the command reference, and guides for creating, inspecting, removing, dtypes, reading data, and cloud storage.

The format itself is documented in docs/.

License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.

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