On 25 June 2013 04:49, Jason Newton <nevion at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Tanu Kaskinen > The data stored within HDF5 files is structured and the metadata makes > the files self-describing of their contents. This allows external > programs such as the HDF File viewer, matlab, and pytables to work > with the files contents trivially in comparison to trying to work with > the opaquely stored blobs the tuple stores currently provide. Will > this always be of use? I'd figure no, but much like you've said with > ini files, there's some nice benefits to being able to peek inside > these files and change values. OTOH hdf5 allows a richer description > of the file format than an ini would. If that file would be of > nontrivial complexity, hdf5 will win out as well in size due to it's > binary data oriented nature. > Having followed this thread for a while I'm wondering why HDF5, which seems geared towards large numerical datasets and rather specialist, would be preferable to sqlite if a dedicated database library is needed for application settings. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk
