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Re: HDF, netCDF, etc question [message #25804 is a reply to message #25722]

Mon, 16 July 2001 13:38

Aaron Birenboim
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Registered: October 2000

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Randall Skelton <rhskelto@atm.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
: I suggest the use of an SQL database :-)

Frankly, I agree.

I have used many formats, including a customer that
demanded a customized HDF based representation.

All a big mess.

I highly recommend storing all your meta-data in an SQL database.
If you do not want to use BLOB's, store path names to the raw binary data.
Store data type, size, etc in the DB.

HDF is very flexible. So flexible that its not very useful
as a standard. In fact, we implemented on HDF 4, then HDF 5 came out,
and its not backward compatible. So this major customer
is sitting on top of TONS of data stored in an OBSOLETE format.
--
Aaron Birenboim
Albuquerque, NM
aaron@boim.com
http://boim.com/~aaron

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		Re: HDF, netCDF, etc question By: R.Bauer on Sun, 08 July 2001 09:31
		Re: HDF, netCDF, etc question By: Craig Markwardt on Sat, 07 July 2001 20:40
		Re: HDF, netCDF, etc question By: Randall Skelton on Sat, 07 July 2001 06:07
		Re: HDF, netCDF, etc question By: Aaron Birenboim on Mon, 16 July 2001 13:38
		Re: HDF, netCDF, etc question By: R.Bauer on Wed, 18 July 2001 23:20
		Re: HDF, netCDF, etc question By: Aaron Birenboim on Mon, 16 July 2001 13:40

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