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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 02:26:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: fastest data / database format for reading large files
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Pradipto Banerjee
<pradipto.banerjee@adainvestments.com> 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 fastest, since it's binary (unless you use the
oldest protocol version) and native to Python. Be sure to specify
HIGHEST_PROTOCOL and use cPickle.
http://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html#module-cPickle
http://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html#pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL

You might consider using SQLite (or some other database) if you will
be doing queries over the data that would be amenable to SQL or
similar.
http://docs.python.org/2/library/sqlite3.html

Cheers,
Chris

P.S. The verbose disclaimer at the end of your emails is kinda annoying...