Re: fastest data / database format for reading large files

2012-10-28 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Pradipto Banerjee wrote: > I am working with a series of large files with sizes 4 to 10GB and may need > to read these files repeated. What data format (i.e. pickle, json, csv, etc.) > is considered the fastest for reading via python? Pickle /ought/ to be faste

fastest data / database format for reading large files

2012-10-28 Thread Pradipto Banerjee
I am working with a series of large files with sizes 4 to 10GB and may need to read these files repeated. What data format (i.e. pickle, json, csv, etc.) is considered the fastest for reading via python? Thanks This communication is for informational purposes on

fastest data / database format for reading large files

2012-10-28 Thread Pradipto Banerjee
I am working with a series of large files with sizes 4 to 10GB and may need to read these files repeated. What data format (i.e. pickle, json, csv, etc.) is considered the fastest for reading via python? Thanks This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be, n