ellimilial
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
Postgres JSONB works, but it requires maintaining a heavy server process. So does Lucene/elasticsearch.
I have been yearning for embeddable store (in line with SQLite the support that both works and also keeps the data compressed like JSONB). I know there were some attempts, tried some of it those, mostly monstrosities).
Sure it's delish, very appealing.
From what I gather, the author is a researcher in bioinformatics related field. This may indicate that they tend to work either alone or in a relatively small group. The domain is small scope data processing/manipulation, research/exploratory code, ,likely short-lived or even one-off.
The progress in this context will possibly be governed by sheer processing speed (e.g. it’s unlikely anyone will delve deep into the code, a lot of iterations to ‘just get it done’ instead of testing etc.).
If this is more or less correct, the point that Nim might be more useful than Python for the author sounds very sensible to me. It’s a nice spot between command line tools and more functionality-loaded languages.
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Take a look at our (largest of its kind) catalogue of biomedical datasets: https://biokeanos.com