What it is

ViTables is a GUI for PyTables (a hierarchical database package designed to efficently manage very large amounts of data) . It allows to open arbitrarely large PyTables and HDF5 files and browse its data and metadata in a variety of ways. Other capabilities include easy navigation through the data hierarchy, displaying of real data and its associated metadata, metadata editing, a simple, yet powerful, browsing of multidimensional data and much more.

As a viewer, one of the greatest strengths of ViTables is its ability to display very large datasets. Tables with one thousand millions of rows (and beyond) are navigated stunningly fast and with very low memory requirements.

ViTables is developed using Python and PyQt (the Python bindings to the Qt libraries), so it can run on any platform that supports these components.

Further information

The ViTables website can be found at vitables.org. It contains links to this project, the downloads area, documentation, etc. so it's worth to visit it.

If you have requests, comments or questions you can post a message to the ViTables Users Group.