html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1650#issuecomment-338779368,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1650,338779368,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMzODc3OTM2OA==,1217238,2017-10-23T20:02:12Z,2017-10-23T20:02:12Z,MEMBER,This should be easier after the index/coordinates separation envisioned in https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1603. We could potentially define a basic index API (based on what we currently use from pandas) and allow alternative index implementations. There are certainly other use cases where go beyond pandas makes sense -- a KDTree for indexing geospatial data is one obvious example.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,267628781 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1650#issuecomment-338662290,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1650,338662290,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMzODY2MjI5MA==,1197350,2017-10-23T13:40:53Z,2017-10-23T13:40:53Z,MEMBER,This is related to the performance issue documented in #1385.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,267628781 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1650#issuecomment-338647540,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1650,338647540,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMzODY0NzU0MA==,10050469,2017-10-23T12:47:02Z,2017-10-23T12:47:11Z,MEMBER,"> Has anyone considered implementing an index for monotonic data that does not require loading all values into main memory? But this is already the case? See https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/1017 With on file datasets I *think* it is sufficient to `drop_variables` when opening the dataset in order not to parse the coordinates: ```ds = xr.open_dataset(f, drop_variables=['lon', 'lat'])``` ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,267628781