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Pre-release documentation

This describes Beacon 2.0.0-rc3, a release candidate. Behavior documented here may still change before 2.0.0 ships, and some of it is not in any released build yet. For the current stable release, see the 1.8.0 documentation.

Guides

These guides are short. Each guide solves one problem from start to end. Each guide also links to the reference chapters.

GuideWhat it covers
Query a File CollectionMake one table from thousands of NetCDF or Parquet files
Query Data on S3Credentials, public buckets, and fast object storage
Export Query ResultsWrite results to Parquet, CSV, NetCDF, GeoParquet or ODV
Speed Up Slow QueriesDiagnose with EXPLAIN. Then fix with pushdown, Atlas or a materialized view

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