ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Rasdaman

Okay kiddo, let's talk about rasdaman!

Do you know what a database is? It's like a big library for information. You can store lots of different things in a database, like names, numbers, pictures, and even maps! And when you want to find something specific, like a person's name or a picture of a cat, the database can help you find it quickly.

Well, rasdaman is a type of database that is really good at storing something called "multi-dimensional data". That means data that has lots of different parts that vary over several different dimensions.

For example, think about a satellite taking pictures of the Earth. Each picture has information about the color and brightness of each pixel (the little dots that make up the picture), but it also has information about where each pixel is located in space and time. That's multi-dimensional data, and rasdaman can store it all together in one place.

But storing the data is only part of the story. Rasdaman is also really good at helping you analyze and retrieve that data. It can do things like:

- Show you different parts of the multi-dimensional data all at once, so you can see how different dimensions are related. For example, you could look at a map of temperature readings from around the world, and see how the temperature changes over time and between different locations.
- Let you ask complicated questions about the data, and get useful answers. For example, you could ask rasdaman to find all the images of a certain part of the Earth where the temperature was over 30 degrees Celsius and the clouds were less than 50% cover.
- Make it easy to share the data with other people or programs. That way, scientists or engineers can all look at the same data and use it to do their own research.

So that's rasdaman! It's a type of database that's really good at storing and analyzing multi-dimensional data, especially things like satellite images. It helps people understand complex information and use it to make new discoveries.