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MrPowers on May 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular d...

HDF5 has some limitations that make it suboptimal for cloud based storage systems.

Zarr overcomes these limitations for array data and Parquet overcomes these limitations for tabular data.

noobermin on May 4, 2022 [–]

The OP wants a text based format, he doesn't care about what is optimal.

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