Data Manager

Overview

MemCom is a data management system designed for computational mechanics applications, like computational solid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, and coupled multi-disciplinary applications. It is however not tied to specific applications and may be used in many contexts where fast or platform-independent I/O is desired.

Licensing and Distribution

MemCom works on Linux, and the source code of MemCom is released under the GPL version 3 (GPLv3). MemCom Pro extends MemCom with Fortran APIs and is distributed in packaged binary form. Please refer to Distribution for information on available platforms, and computer system requirements.

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Data Structures

MemCom supports several data structures optimized for representing computational mechanics data:

• Positional data structures: These are contiguous one- and two-dimensional arrays of uniformly typed elements, where each data element is addressed by its position. The supported data element types are purely numerical.
• Dictionaries: Data structures containing name-value pairs, where the name is a string, and the value is either a string or a numerical array.
• Array tables: Arrays of structured data, with typed columns containing fixed or variable-length arrays.
• Sparse tables: Efficient storage for non-contiguous arrays of dictionaries, with typed columns containing fixed or variable-length arrays.

Instances of these data structures are called datasets. Each dataset is identified by a name. A MemCom database is a collection of datasets with unique names.