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simonbyrne committed Jul 21, 2023
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* Store numeric array and attributes in nested groups
* Use it when you want to compactly store lot of binary data
* Do not use it when you have a lot of variable length strings
* Consider other formats when using tables

## When not to use HDF5
* Arrays of variable-length strings
* Tables of heterogeneous data

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# What is HDF5? - Related Formats
# Related formats

* NetCDF - Network Common Data Form (Unidata, UCAR)
HDF5 is used as a base for other formats
* NetCDF - Network Common Data Form v4 (Unidata, UCAR)
* MAT - MATLAB data files v7.3+
* PyTables - Pandas

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* Mustafa Mohamad is the current lead maintainer
* Mark Kittisopikul has been expanding API coverage, especially with chunking
* Simon Byrne has been working on package organization, filter interface
* Simon Byrne has been working on package organization, filter interface, virtual datasets, and parallelization
* Other recent contributors: t-bltg, Henrik Ranocha, Nathan Zimmerberg, Joshua Lampert, Tamas Gal, David MacMahon, Juan Ignacio Polanco, Michale Schlottke-Lakemper, linwaytin, Dmitri Iouchtchenko, Lorenzo Van Munoz, Jared Wahlstrand, Julian Samaroo, machakann, James Hester, Ralph Kube, Kristoffer Carlsson

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# Write a HDF5 file
h5open("mydata.h5", "w") do h5f
h5f["group_A/group_B/array_C"] = rand(1024,1024)
attributes(h5f["group_A"])["access_date"] = "2023_07_21"
attrs(h5f["group_A"])["access_date"] = "2023_07_21"
end

# Read a HDF5 file
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