rasdaman v10.4 documentation

This is the documentation of rasdaman community, a multi-dimensional Array Analytics Engine that enables efficient querying and manipulation of multi-dimensional arrays of unlimited size.

Rasdaman Community is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Rasdaman Community is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; with­out even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PAR­TIC­UL­AR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with rasdaman. If not, see www.gnu.org/licenses. For more information please see www.rasdaman.org or contact Peter Baumann via baumann@rasdaman.com.

Originally created by rasdaman GmbH, this document is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Contents:

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Features
  • 1.2. Rasdaman Application Domains
  • 1.3. OGC geo standards support
  • 1.4. How to Contribute
  • 1.5. Reporting problems
• 2. Installation and Administration Guide
  • 2.1. Preface
  • 2.2. Getting Started
  • 2.3. Installed Files and Data
  • 2.4. Access Interfaces
  • 2.5. Server Architecture
  • 2.6. Server Administration
  • 2.7. Security
  • 2.8. Backup
  • 2.9. Migration
  • 2.10. Uninstallation
  • 2.11. Troubleshooting
• 3. Contributing to Rasdaman
  • 3.1. Development Contributions
  • 3.2. Documentation
  • 3.3. Git resources
  • 3.4. C++ Guidelines
  • 3.5. Adding Tests
  • 3.6. rasdaman Code Guide
  • 3.7. Geo services
• 4. Query Language Guide
  • 4.1. Preface
  • 4.2. Introduction
  • 4.3. Terminology
  • 4.4. Sample Database
  • 4.5. Type Definition Using rasql
  • 4.6. Query Execution with rasql
  • 4.7. Overview: General Query Format
  • 4.8. Constants
  • 4.9. Spatial Domain Operations
  • 4.10. Array Operations
  • 4.11. Data Format Conversion
  • 4.12. Object identifiers
  • 4.13. Null Values
  • 4.14. Miscellaneous
  • 4.15. Arithmetic Errors and Other Exception Situations
  • 4.16. Database Retrieval and Manipulation
  • 4.17. Transaction Scheduling
  • 4.18. Linking MDD with Other Data
  • 4.19. Storage Layout Language
  • 4.20. Web Access to rasql
  • 4.21. Appendix A: rasql Grammar
  • 4.22. Appendix B: Reserved keywords
• 5. Geo Services Guide
  • 5.1. OGC Coverage Standards Overview
  • 5.2. OGC Web Services Endpoint
  • 5.3. OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS)
  • 5.4. OGC Web Coverage Service
  • 5.5. OGC Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS)
  • 5.6. OGC Web Map Service (WMS)
  • 5.7. OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS)
  • 5.8. Experimental API
  • 5.9. Data Import
  • 5.10. Data export
  • 5.11. rasdaman / petascope Geo Service Administration
  • 5.12. Geo Service Standards Compliance
• 6. CRS Management
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Service
  • 6.3. Concepts
• 7. RRasdaman Guide
  • 7.1. Prerequisites
  • 7.2. Connect to rasdaman
  • 7.3. Handles
  • 7.4. Arrays representation
  • 7.5. Displaying data
  • 7.6. Writing data
  • 7.7. Transaction management
  • 7.8. Further reading
• 8. C++ Developers Guide
  • 8.1. Preface
  • 8.2. Introduction
  • 8.3. Terminology
  • 8.4. Application Examples
  • 8.5. Raslib Classes
  • 8.6. Linking MDD with Other Data
  • 8.7. Compilation and Linkage of Client Programs
  • 8.8. HTML Documentation
• 9. Java Developers Guide
  • 9.1. Preface
  • 9.2. Introduction
  • 9.3. Terminology
  • 9.4. Application Examples
  • 9.5. rasj
  • 9.6. ODMG
  • 9.7. Points and Intervals
  • 9.8. Multidimensional Arrays
  • 9.9. Storage Layout
  • 9.10. Collections and Queries
  • 9.11. OIDs
  • 9.12. Type Management
  • 9.13. Exceptions
  • 9.14. Compilation and Execution of Client Programs
  • 9.15. HTML Documentation
• 10. raswct Web Client Toolkit Developer Guide
  • 10.1. Preface
  • 10.2. Introduction
  • 10.3. Utility Namespace
  • 10.4. Query Namespace
  • 10.5. Widget Namespace
• 11. Cheatsheets
  • 11.1. WCS
  • 11.2. WCPS
  • 11.3. WMS
  • 11.4. Clients