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Smaller databases

Adjust the sizes of the various tables (file, track, times, l2norm)
linearly with the overall size of the database.

Now it makes sense to allow 50Mb databases, as the various fixed-size
tables shrink, rather than being fixed to somewhere over that size...

package "audioDB"
version "version 1.0"
purpose "A feature vector database management system for content-based retrieval."
option "help" H "print help on audioDB usage and exit." optional
option "verbosity" v "level of detail of operational information." int typestr="detail" default="1" optional
text "\nDatabase commands are UPPER CASE. Command options are lower case.\n" 
text ""
section "Database Setup" sectiondesc="All database operations require a database argument."

option "database" d "database file required by Database commands." string typestr="filename" optional
option "NEW"    N "make a new (initially empty) database." dependon="database" optional
option "size"   - "size of database file (in MB)" int dependon="NEW" default="2000" optional
option "STATUS" S "output database information to stdout." dependon="database" optional
option "DUMP"   D "output all entries: index key size." dependon="database" optional
option "output" - "output directory" string dependon="DUMP" default="audioDB.dump" optional
option "L2NORM" L "unit norm vectors and norm all future inserts." dependon="database" optional

section "Database Insertion" sectiondesc="The following commands insert feature files, with optional keys and timestamps.\n"
option "INSERT"      I "add feature vectors to an existing database." dependon="features" optional
option "UPDATE"      U "replace inserted vectors associated with key with new input vectors." dependon="features" dependon="key" dependon="database" optional hidden
option "features" f "binary series of vectors file {int sz:ieee double[][sz]:eof}." string typestr="filename" dependon="database" optional
option "times"    t "list of time points (ascii) for feature vectors." string typestr="filename" dependon="features" optional
option "key"      k "unique identifier associated with features." string typestr="identifier" dependon="features" optional
text ""
option "BATCHINSERT" B "add feature vectors named in a --featureList file (with optional keys in a --keyList file) to the named database." dependon="featureList" optional
option "featureList" F "text file containing list of binary feature vector files to process, one per track" string typestr="filename" dependon="database" optional
option "timesList"   T "text file containing list of ascii --times for each --features file in --featureList." string typestr="filename" dependon="featureList" optional
option "keyList"     K "text file containing list of unique identifiers associated with --features." string typestr="filename" optional


section "Database Search" sectiondesc="Thse commands control the retrieval behaviour.\n"

option "QUERY" Q "content-based search on --database using --features as a query. Optionally restrict the search to those tracks identified in a --keyList." values="point","track","sequence" typestr="searchtype" dependon="database" dependon="features" optional
option "qpoint" p "ordinal position of query start point in --features file." int typestr="position" default="0" optional
option "exhaustive" e "exhaustive search: iterate through all query vectors in search. Overrides --qpoint." flag off optional hidden
option "pointnn" n "number of point nearest neighbours to use in retrieval." int typestr="numpoints" default="10" optional
option "radius"  R "radius search, returns all points/tracks/sequences inside given radius. (Overrides --pointnn)." double default="1.0" optional 
option "expandfactor" x "time compress/expand factor of result length to query length [1.0 .. 100.0]." double default="1.1" optional hidden
option "rotate"       o "rotate query vectors for rotationally invariant search." flag off optional hidden
option "resultlength" r "maximum length of the result list." int typestr="length" default="10" optional
option "sequencelength" l "length of sequences for sequence search." int typestr="length" default="16" dependon="QUERY" optional
option "sequencehop"  h "hop size of sequence window for sequence search." int typestr="hop" default="1" dependon="QUERY" optional

section "Web Services" sectiondesc="These commands enable the database process to establish a connection via the internet and operate as separate client and server processes.\n"
option "SERVER" s "run as standalone web service on named port." int typestr="port" default="14475" optional
option "client" c "run as a client using named host service." string typestr="hostname:port" optional


text "\nCopyright (C) 2007 Michael Casey, Goldsmiths, University of London\n"