HDF5 is a very good choice for long term data storage. Note that even Matlab uses it as standard format for saving and loading workspaces.
Am Donnerstag, 3. April 2014 10:16:03 UTC+2 schrieb Ivar Nesje: > > Portable and open source is definitely good properties to ensure long > therm thrust. If the standard has several implementations, it helps to > ensure that the standard is concistent and usable in different settings, > and discourages incompatible changes. It is also a good sign of popularity. > I have not looked at HDF5, but I suspect there are many settings where a > zipped directory of csv files are easier to use, as well as cases where the > opposite is true. As we don't bundle the library with Julia, installation > is an additional issue. > > This is anyway only relevant for a long therm STORAGE format. That is a > different requirement from a file to transfer data between machines, or > work sessions on different days. >
