rasdaman v10.5 documentation

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

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Contents:

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Features
  • 1.2. Rasdaman Application Domains
  • 1.3. OGC geo standards support
  • 1.4. Reporting problems
• 2. Installation and Administration Guide
  • 2.1. Preface
  • 2.2. Installation
  • 2.3. Running rasdaman
  • 2.4. Installed Files and Data
  • 2.5. Access Interfaces
  • 2.6. Server Architecture
  • 2.7. Server Administration
  • 2.8. Federations [RE]
  • 2.9. Billing [RE]
  • 2.10. UDF packages [RE]
  • 2.11. Security
  • 2.12. Backup
  • 2.13. Migration
  • 2.14. Uninstallation
  • 2.15. Troubleshooting
• 3. Contributing to Rasdaman
• 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 Import
  • 4.12. Data Export
  • 4.13. Object identifiers
  • 4.14. Null Values
  • 4.15. Miscellaneous
  • 4.16. Arithmetic Errors and Other Exception Situations
  • 4.17. Database Retrieval and Manipulation
  • 4.18. In-Situ File Archive Storage [RE]
  • 4.19. User-Defined Functions - UDFs [RE]
  • 4.20. Transaction Scheduling
  • 4.21. Linking MDD with Other Data
  • 4.22. Storage Layout Language
  • 4.23. Storage Encoding and Compression [RE]
  • 4.24. Access Control [RE]
  • 4.25. Federation [RE]
  • 4.26. Federated Access Control [RE]
  • 4.27. Web Access to rasql
  • 4.28. Appendix A: rasql Grammar
  • 4.29. 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
  • 5.13. Appendix A: WCPS Grammar
• 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
• 12. Release Notes
  • 12.1. rasdaman v10.5 (2025-04-04)
  • 12.2. rasdaman v10.4 (2024-11-29)
  • 12.3. rasdaman v10.3 (2024-03-13)
  • 12.4. rasdaman v10.2 (2023-03-15)
  • 12.5. rasdaman v10.1 (2022-10-21)
  • 12.6. rasdaman v10.0 (2022-03-18)