I have recently been using Brendan Meutzner's excellent Flex charting clone of Google Finance to display scientific time series data. Now I am trying to find a good server side solution to filling it with data. Specifically I want to be able to store a very large data set (as file refs or BLOBs) in a database, query the database for a specific time chunk within the set, package that for sending to the Flex client, and do paging if the chunk is large.
So I am looking for suggestions on: how to implement this, what server/database combos to use, etc. Would Flex (Live Cycle) Data Services be useful for something like this? So far I have been looking at RRDTool <http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/> or using MySQL and just writing custom code to crawl a data set on the server side to produce the desired chunk and wrap it in xml. For RRDTool I would also have to modify it to use much smaller time steps. This is a pilot project, but we hope it will eventually become a large repository for neuroscience data, so I am keeping scalability in mind as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Peter
