TL;DR
easyaccess is a Python package that simplifies and enhances SQL database access for astronomical surveys, offering features like autocompletion, data upload/download, and extensibility for various surveys.
Contribution
It introduces a customizable command line tool tailored for astronomical database access, specifically optimized for the Dark Energy Survey, with extendable functionalities.
Findings
Improved data access efficiency for astronomical catalogs.
Supports multiple data formats including CSV, FITS, HDF5.
Easily extendable to other surveys and databases.
Abstract
easyaccess is an enhanced command line interpreter and Python package created to facilitate access to astronomical catalogs stored in SQL Databases. It provides a custom interface with custom commands and was specifically designed to access data from the Dark Energy Survey Oracle database, including autocompletion of tables, columns, users and commands, simple ways to upload and download tables using csv, fits and HDF5 formats, iterators, search and description of tables among others. It can easily be extended to another surveys or SQL databases. The package was completely written in Python and support customized addition of commands and functionalities.
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