<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Welcome to PyTable’s documentation! — PyTables 3.0.0 documentation</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="_static/cloud.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="#" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = {
URL_ROOT: '',
VERSION: '3.0.0',
COLLAPSE_INDEX: false,
FILE_SUFFIX: '.html',
HAS_SOURCE: true
};
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="_static/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="_static/underscore.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="_static/doctools.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="_static/jquery.cookie.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="_static/toggle_sections.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="_static/toggle_sidebar.js"></script>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="_static/favicon.ico"/>
<link rel="top" title="PyTables 3.0.0 documentation" href="#" />
<link rel="next" title="PyTables User’s Guide" href="usersguide/index.html" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="relbar-top">
<div class="related">
<h3>Navigation</h3>
<ul>
<li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
<a href="genindex.html" title="General Index"
accesskey="I">index</a></li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index"
>modules</a> </li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="np-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index"
>modules</a> </li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="usersguide/index.html" title="PyTables User’s Guide"
accesskey="N">next</a> </li>
<li><a href="#">PyTables 3.0.0 documentation</a> »</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="document">
<div class="documentwrapper">
<div class="bodywrapper">
<div class="body">
<div class="section" id="welcome-to-pytable-s-documentation">
<h1>Welcome to PyTable’s documentation!<a class="headerlink" href="#welcome-to-pytable-s-documentation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>PyTables is a package for managing hierarchical datasets and designed
to efficiently and easily cope with extremely large amounts of data.
You can download PyTables and use it for free. You can access documentation,
some examples of use and presentations here.</p>
<p>PyTables is built on top of the HDF5 library, using the Python language
and the NumPy package. It features an object-oriented interface that,
combined with C extensions for the performance-critical parts of the
code (generated using Cython), makes it a fast, yet extremely easy to
use tool for interactively browse, process and search very large amounts
of data. One important feature of PyTables is that it optimizes memory and
disk resources so that data takes much less space (specially if on-flight
compression is used) than other solutions such as relational or object
oriented databases.</p>
<p>You can also, find more information by reading the PyTables <a class="reference internal" href="FAQ.html"><em>FAQ</em></a>.</p>
<p>PyTables development is a continuing effort and we are always looking for
more developers, testers, and users. If you are interested in being
involved with this project, please contact us via <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables">github</a> or the
mailing list.</p>
<div class="section" id="contents">
<h2>Contents<a class="headerlink" href="#contents" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="toctree-wrapper compound">
<ul>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="usersguide/index.html">User’s Guide</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cookbook/index.html">Cookbook</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="other_material.html">Other Material</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="MIGRATING_TO_3.x.html">Migrating from 2.x to 3.x</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="release_notes.html">Release Notes</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="project_pointers.html">Project pointers</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="development.html">Development</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="dev_team.html">Development Team</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="helpful-links">
<h1>Helpful Links<a class="headerlink" href="#helpful-links" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="genindex.html"><em>Index</em></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="search.html"><em>Search Page</em></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sphinxsidebar">
<div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">
<p class="logo"><a href="#">
<img class="logo" src="_static/logo-pytables-small.png" alt="Logo"/>
</a></p>
<h3><a href="#">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
<ul>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="usersguide/index.html">User’s Guide</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cookbook/index.html">Cookbook</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="other_material.html">Other Material</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="MIGRATING_TO_3.x.html">Migrating from 2.x to 3.x</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="release_notes.html">Release Notes</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="project_pointers.html">Project pointers</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="development.html">Development</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="dev_team.html">Development Team</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Next topic</h4>
<p class="topless"><a href="usersguide/index.html"
title="next chapter">PyTables User’s Guide</a></p>
<h3>This Page</h3>
<ul class="this-page-menu">
<li><a href="_sources/index.txt"
rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="searchbox" style="display: none">
<h3>Quick search</h3>
<form class="search" action="search.html" method="get">
<input type="text" name="q" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
<input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
<input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
</form>
<p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%">
Enter search terms or a module, class or function name.
</p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script><div>
<a href="https://travis-ci.org/PyTables/PyTables"><img src="https://travis-ci.org/PyTables/PyTables.png" alt="travis-ci status page"/></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clearer"></div>
</div>
<div class="relbar-bottom">
<div class="related">
<h3>Navigation</h3>
<ul>
<li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
<a href="genindex.html" title="General Index"
>index</a></li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index"
>modules</a> </li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="np-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index"
>modules</a> </li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="usersguide/index.html" title="PyTables User’s Guide"
>next</a> </li>
<li><a href="#">PyTables 3.0.0 documentation</a> »</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
© Copyright 2011-2013, PyTables maintainers.
Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.1.3.
</div>
<!-- cloud_sptheme 1.3 -->
</body>
</html>
