Hi - just investigating pytables from storing data from many distributed 
remote logging stations, each logging about 100 channels at 1 second 
frequency (a fair bit).

My questions;

1. How does one handle ordering timeseries data within a table?  *Does* one 
actually order on the way in (eg re-shuffling data) or simply ignore it?  
Coming from a NetCDF background, the answer would be the former because at 
some point you'd want to efficiently serially read and plot it, but I've 
little experience with HDF and if this needs to be considered at all.

2. Has anyone contended with managing schema differences between sources?  In 
other words, if I have say 500 loggers, each logging slightly different 
schemas (ie 100 different columns and so different table definitions), the 
suggested Pytables way of binding static data definitions for each logger 
could be unmaintainable.  From memory I can dynamically bind class attributes 
in Python - is this ok?

nick

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