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Something like this is possible with rosbag API in Python/C++. However rosbag is designed to store and retrieve data sequentially, thus you will have to iterate over the whole bunch of messages to find appropriate ones. So of it is not an everyday task, then rosbag should be sufficient. Otherwise it may be better to use a 'proper' DB indeed.

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