HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 | HDF5 User’s Guide HDF5 Reference Manual HDF5 Application Developer's Guide

# Advanced Topics in HDF5

The following topics are broadly applicable in HDF5 applications.
Chunking in HDF5 |  | Provides background and guidance to assist in structuring and tuning the use of chunking.
Using the Direct Chunk Write Function |  | Describes another way that chunks can be written to datasets. (PDF only)
Copying Committed Datatypes with H5Ocopy |  | Describes how to copy to another file a dataset that uses a committed datatype or an object with an attribute that uses a committed datatype so that the committed datatype in the destination file can be used by multiple objects. (PDF only)
Using Identifiers |  | Describes how HDF5 identifiers behave and how they should be treated.
Using UTF-8 Encoding in HDF5 Applications |  | Describes the use of UTF-8 Unicode character encodings in HDF5 applications.
HDF5 Metadata |  | Provides a comprehensive overview of the types of metadata used in HDF5.
Dynamic Plugins in HDF5 |  | Describes the use of dynamic plugins, including dynamically loaded filters, in HDF5. These plugins need not be registered with the HDF5 Library.
HDF5 Data Flow Pipeline for H5Dread |  | Describes data flow when reading raw data from an HDF5 dataset. (PDF only)
The following topics are of interest in certain limited situations such as when space utilization or performance must be carefully tuned.
Metadata Caching in HDF5 |  | Provides detailed information for managing and tuning HDF5 metadata caching.
HDF5 File Image Operations |  | Describes how to work with HDF5 files in memory. Disk I/O is not required when file images are opened, created, read from, or written to. (PDF only)
Modified Region Writes |  | Describes how to set write operations for in-memory files so that only modified regions are written to storage. Available when the Core (Memory) VFD is used. (PDF only)
Freeing Memory Allocated by the HDF5 Library |  | Describes how inconsistent memory management can cause heap corruption or resource leaks and possible solutions. (PDF only)
Enabling a Strict Consistency Semantics Model in Parallel HDF5 |  | Describes how to improve file access consistency semantics with the Parallel HDF5 Library. (PDF only)

HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 | HDF5 User’s Guide HDF5 Reference Manual HDF5 Application Developer's Guide

Last modified: 16 September 2015