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license: Apache-2.0
title: 'gbifdb: High Performance Interface to ''GBIF'''
version: 1.0.0
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.gbifdb
abstract: A high performance interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility,
  'GBIF'. In contrast to 'rgbif', which can access small subsets of 'GBIF' data through
  web-based queries to a central server, 'gbifdb' provides enhanced performance for
  R users performing large-scale analyses on servers and cloud computing providers,
  providing full support for arbitrary 'SQL' or 'dplyr' operations on the complete
  'GBIF' data tables (now over 1 billion records, and over a terabyte in size). 'gbifdb'
  accesses a copy of the 'GBIF' data in 'parquet' format, which is already readily
  available in commercial computing clouds such as the Amazon Open Data portal and
  the Microsoft Planetary Computer, or can be accessed directly without downloading,
  or downloaded to any server with suitable bandwidth and storage space. The high-performance
  techniques for local and remote access are described in <https://duckdb.org/why_duckdb>
  and <https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/fs.html> respectively.
authors:
- family-names: Boettiger
  given-names: Carl
  email: cboettig@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-628X
repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ropensci/gbifdb
commit: 35b60fded47c800c26c908b1289e98b6f2edef78
url: https://docs.ropensci.org/gbifdb/
contact:
- family-names: Boettiger
  given-names: Carl
  email: cboettig@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-628X