Evaluation of HDF5¶
Main HDF Group page http://www.hdfgroup.org/
Advantages of using HDF5¶
- Compact binary data storage, extensible metadata
- Fast random and parallel access, efficient, scalable
- Widely used in High Performance Computing
- Open source and cross-platform
- HDF5-Fast Query and paper
Possible limitations of HDF5¶
- Difficulty to store variable-length string properties.
- Deleting a dataset does not free the space on disk. Requires rewriting the file.
- Many read/write operations on the same HDF5 file might be limited.
- Delete or update a dataset in HDF5?
- Evaluating HDF5: What limitations/features does HDF5 provide for modelling data?