Oops. I thought I was reading the array off disk for the speed test, but
apparently the array was already in RAM. Changing this so that I read the
array, eg where(a[:] == id), takes about the same time as searching for the
id value in a table.
Sorry about that.
Rich
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I've been finding pytables useful for organizing big genomics data (e.g.
storing and querying ~200 Gb all vs all uniparc smith-waterman hits from
Uniprot).
One thing that has surprised me a little:
I was interested in the efficiency of querying small tables storing an index
(integer) and an integ
