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.. pyfdb documentation master file
:author: ECMWF
:date: 2025-11-10
FDB documentation
===================================
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Contents:
:hidden:
fdb/index
pyfdb/index
z3fdb/index
The :ref:`FDB <FDB_Introduction>` is part of `ECMWF
<https://www.ecmwf.int>`__’s high‑performance data infrastructure and stores
different file formats, such as GRIB, ODB, BUFR. In case of GRIB, it stores
each message as a field, indexes it by meteorological metadata (e.g.,
`parameter`, `level`, `date/time`), and serves recent outputs to
post‑processing tasks and users. In operational use, FDB acts as a hot cache in
front of the long‑term MARS archive, enabling fast access to newly generated
data.
:ref:`PyFDB <PyFDB_Introduction>` is the Python interface to the `FDB
<github.com/ecmwf/fdb>`__, a domain‑specific object store designed to
efficiently archive, index, list, and retrieve GRIB fields produced by
numerical weather prediction workflows. It provides a thin, idiomatic Python
layer over the `FDB` client library installed on your system, so you can drive
FDB operations directly from Python scripts and notebooks.
:ref:`Z3FDB <Z3FDB_Introduction>` is the Python-Zarr interface to the `FDB
<github.com/ecmwf/fdb>`__. It provides a thin, idiomatic Python layer over the
`FDB` client library installed on your system, so you can extract Zarr data
from underlying GRIB data by creating a virtual Zarr store. The view is
described via a MARS request and can be used to create a virtual Zarr store
containing the data of the MARS request. For further information, see
:ref:`Z3FDB <Z3FDB_Introduction>` or visit the `Zarr project
<github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python>`__.
Indices and tables
==================
* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`
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