I wrote this document to try to give more information to the NIPY developers about the present and future of BrainVISA database system. I hope it will serve the discussion opened by Jarrod Millman about a possible collaboration between the two projects on this topic. Unfortunately, I do not know other projects providing similar features (such as BIRN) so I will only focus on BrainVISA.
Yann Cointepas
2006-11-21
In BrainVISA, all the database system is home made and written in Python. This system is based on the file system and allows to do requests for both reading and writing (get the name of non existing files). We will change this in the future by defining an API (such the one introduced below) and by using at least two implementations, one relying on a relational database system and one compatible with the actual database system. Having one single API will make it possible, for instance, to work on huge databases located on servers and on smaller databases located in a laptop directory (with some synchronization features). This system will be independent from the BrainVISA application, it could be packaged separately. Unfortunately, we cannot say when this work will be done ();< ustar root root
| Release: | 0.1 |
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| Date: | August 09, 2010 |