Groups

Creating TileDB Groups

TileDB allows you to hierarchically organize your arrays in groups. A group is a directory with a __tiledb_group.tdb marker file and additional folders containing metadata and group-member URIs; see here for further description of the contents and layout. This offers an intuitive and familiar way to store your various TileDB objects in persistent storage. You can create a group simply as follows:

C

// ... create context ctx

// Create group
tiledb_group_create(ctx, "my_group");

C++

// ... create context ctx

create_group(ctx, "my_group");

Python

tiledb.group_create("my_group")

R

# ... create context ctx

tiledb_group_create(ctx, "my_group")

Java

// ... create context ctx
Group.create(ctx, "test_group");

Go

// ... create context ctx

// Create group
tiledb.GroupCreate(ctx, "my_group");

You can hierarchically organize TileDB groups similar to your filesystem directories, i.e., groups can be arbitrarily nested in other groups.