scidb-py

Python wrappers for SciDB

Classifiers

Development Status: 4 - Beta
Environment: Console
Intended Audience: Science/Research
License: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Natural Language: English
Programming Language: Python :: 2.6; Python :: 2.7; Python :: 3.3
Topic: Database :: Front-Ends; Scientific/Engineering

Project Description

SciDB-py is a full-featuered Python interface to SciDB. Its goal is to allow users to utilize the power of SciDB from Python, using a familiar and intuitive numpy-like syntax. For more information, see the SciDB Documentation.

Authors: Jake VanderPlas <jakevdp@cs.washington.edu>, Chris Beaumont <cbeaumont@cfa.harvard.edu>
License: Simplified BSD
Documentation: http://scidb-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Requirements

SciDB-Py requires a working SciDB installation, as well as a Shim network interface connected to the instance. It requires Python 2.6-2.7 or 3.3.

Package Dependencies

SciDB-Py has several Python package dependencies:

NumPy: tested with version 1.7.
Requests: tested with version 1.2. (Note: known failures exist when used with requests version < 1.0) Required for using the Shim interface to SciDB.
Pandas (optional): tested with version 0.10. Required only for importing/exporting SciDB arrays as Pandas Dataframe objects.
SciPy (optional): tested with versions 0.10-0.12. Required only for importing/exporting SciDB arrays as SciPy sparse matrices.

Test Dependencies

Mock: Required for some tests

Installation

For full installation information, please see the Documentation.

To install the latest stable release via the Python Package Index, use ` pip install scidb-py `

To download the source code for the 14.7 release, change ‘branch:master’ to ‘tag:v14.7.0’ and then click ‘download’, or directly download from https://github.com/Paradigm4/SciDB-py/archive/v14.7.0.zip

To install from source after downloading, type ` python setup.py install `

Depending on how your Python installation is set up, you may need root privileges for this.