https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/hdf5/ Recent content in Hdf5 on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-10-11-array-storage-formats-hdf5-netcdf4-zarr-tiledb-comparison/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-10-11-array-storage-formats-hdf5-netcdf4-zarr-tiledb-comparison/ <p>The first time you try to read a slice out of a 40 GB climate file, you learn the lesson that every data engineer eventually learns the hard way: <strong>the format you picked in hour one decides how painful year two is.</strong> A monolithic <code>.nc</code> file is a joy on one workstation and a liability in a stack of containers reading from object storage. A pile of chunked arrays is the opposite. Neither is wrong — but they are not interchangeable, and migrating later means rewriting every reader you own.</p>