The ReductStore Project hosts the free "cats" dataset, which contains about 10K photos of cats in JPEG format with eye coordinates, a month, and ears as labels. In this example, we can learn how to download the dataset from the ReductStore instance and draw the features using the OpenCV library.

Installing Dependencies​

First, we need to install the ReductStore Client SDK for Python to download the photos and labels. We also need the OpenCV Python library for drawing features and Pillow to display images in the Jupyter environment:

pip install reduct-py opencv-python Pillow

Getting Data​

To retrieve data we need the URL of the ReductStore instance, the bucket name, where we store our datasets and an API token with read access, so that we can connect to the database by using the Client class:

from reduct import Client, Bucket

HOST = "https://play.reduct.store"
API_TOKEN = "reductstore"
BUCKET = "datasets"

client = Client(HOST, api_token=API_TOKEN)

bucket: Bucket = await client.get_bucket(BUCKET)

By making ReductStore available on the Snap Store, users can now easily install and manage ReductStore on various Linux distributions.

Snap is a universal package manager developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. It allows developers to package their applications and dependencies into a single package that can be installed on any Linux distribution that supports snap, without worrying about different packaging formats and dependency conflicts.

We are excited to announce the release of ReductStore Client SDK for C++ v1.3.0! This release includes support for the ReductStore API v1.3.0 with labels and content type.