RBC how-tos

These documents are intended as short recipes for common tasks using RBC. It is based on NumPy how-tos and diataxis how to guide.

How-tos are supposed to be short documents describing a specific feature or property of the RBC project. For full content, check the tutorials page.

Basics

• Connect to the HeavyDB server
• User Defined Functions (UDFs)
• User Defined Table Functions (UDTFs)
• Raising exceptions
• Using templates

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Datatypes

• Array type
• Column Type
• Text types
• Geometry Types
• Table/Row Function Manager
• String Dictionary Proxy

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Advanced

• Restricting a function to run only in a specific device (CPU/GPU)
• Defining and using external functions