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''(Current rasdaman version: v9.2; previous versions: [[TitleIndex(Documentation/,hideprefix,format=compact)]])''

= Rasdaman Documentation =

We believe that good documentation is probably the single most important thing for a successful project. We work hard on high quality documentation - you can help us by letting us know about areas that are unclear, helpful additions, etc.

   * Installation Guide:
     * [source:manuals_and_examples/manuals/doc-guides/inst-guide.pdf Installation and Administration Guide (pdf)], [wiki:Install Installation guide (wiki)]
     * [source:manuals_and_examples/manuals/doc-guides/external-guide-POSTGRESQL.pdf PostgreSQL connector]
     * [wiki:Performance Performance and various PostgreSQL bits and pieces]
   * User Guide:
     * [source:manuals_and_examples/manuals/doc-guides/ql-guide.pdf Query Language Guide for rasql]; query examples therein rely on the demo data, delivered with rasdaman, which can be inserted through `rasdaman_insertdemo.sh`. Hence, all examples can be readily run.
      * [wiki:PartialUpdates Partial updates explained] (or how to insert large amounts of data in rasdaman)
      * [wiki:Tiling Tiling guide]
     * [source:manuals_and_examples/manuals/doc-guides/rview-guide.pdf Rview Guide] to the graphical interactive query frontend
     * [wiki:PetascopeUserGuide Latest User Guide for petascope] (previous: [wiki:PetascopeUserGuide_8_5 v8.x]) + [wiki:PetascopeDevGuide Developers Guide]
     * [wiki:SecoreUserGuide User Guide for SECORE] + [wiki:SecoreDevGuide Developers Guide]
     * [wiki:RasgeoUserGuide Rasgeo User Guide]
     * [wiki:raswct/guide raswct guide] for the `Rasdaman Web Client Toolkit`
     * [wiki:RRasdamanTutorial RRasdaman Tutorial] for R package for rasdaman.
     * [wiki:WCSTGuide WCS-T] + [wiki:WCSTImportGuide WCS-T ingestion tool guide] for petascope
   * API documentation:
     * [source:manuals_and_examples/manuals/doc-guides/dev-guide-c++.pdf C++ Development Guide]
     * [source:manuals_and_examples/manuals/doc-guides/dev-guide-java.pdf Java Development Guide]
     * [source:manuals_and_examples/manuals/doc-guides/dev-guide-raswct.pdf Rasdaman Web Client Toolkit]
     * [wiki:DebuggingBenchmarking Debugging and Benchmarking Support]
   * Packaging
     * [wiki:RPM RPM package]
     * [wiki:DEB DEB package]
   * Testing
     * Automated tests with [wiki:RasdamanTestSuites systemtests]
   * Tutorials
     * [Workshops/BigDataRasdamanApproach Spatio-Temporal Big Data: the rasdaman approach]

If you have installed rasdaman in `$INSTALLDIR` then you will find the '''complete documentation''' installed, too; direct your browser to 
{{{
$INSTALLDIR/share/rasdaman/doc/index.html
}}}
In addition to the documents replicated here it contains a browseable HTML documentation of the APIs, plus programming and query examples.

== Versions ==

The [wiki:Versions Versions page] lists changes made between successive versions released.

== Further Information ==
   * [wiki:RequiredPackages Packages required]
   * [wiki:Install Installation]
   * [wiki:FAQ HowTos and FAQs]
   * [wiki:KnownIssues Known issues]
   * [http://www.earthlook.org/tech/interface-wcps.php EarthLook] offering a manual, tutorial, and demo database