HDF5

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scientific

General purpose data model, library and file format, and services for storing scientific and engineering data

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Extensions	`.h5.hdf.hdf5.he5.h4.hdf4.he2`
MIME types	`application/vnd.hdfgroup.hdf5`
PRONOM	`fmt/807fmt/286fmt/287`
Wikidata	`Q1069215Q61080677`
Library of Congress	`fdd000229`

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gprMaxOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
h5pyOpen sourcereads and writes · 3-clause BSD License
HDF5Open sourcereads and writes · 3-clause BSD License
HDFViewOpen sourcereads and writes · 3-clause BSD License
Highly Scalable Data ServiceOpen sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0
JHDF5Open sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0
netCDF libraryOpen sourcereads and writes · 3-clause BSD License
PandasOpen sourcereads and writes · BSD licenses
PyTablesOpen sourcereads and writes · 3-clause BSD License
ROpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
rhdf5Open sourcereads and writes · Artistic License 2.0
xarrayOpen sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0
GNU Data LanguageOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
IBM OpenDXOpen sourcereads · IBM Public License
imageioOpen sourcereads · 2-clause BSD License
JuliaOpen sourcereads · Expat license
NCAR Command LanguageOpen sourcereads · Apache Software License 2.0
NetCDF OperatorsOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
PDALOpen sourcereads · 3-clause BSD License
VisItOpen sourcereads · BSD licenses
GNU Octavereads and writes
Interactive Data Languagereads and writes · proprietary license
Mathematicareads and writes · proprietary license
MATLABreads and writes · proprietary license
PV-Wavereads and writes
ArcGISreads · proprietary license
ENVIreads · proprietary license
FlexProreads · proprietary license
HDF Explorerreads
IGOR Proreads · proprietary license
Tecplotreads
VisADreads

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Versions and variants (3)

HDF5 0Unknown
HDF5 1Unknown
HDF5 2Unknown

Sources

From Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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