Compression methods supported by HDF5
HDF5 supports
- gzip (deflate), gzip - CLI, zlib - API
- Szip, n-bit, scale-offset, and shuffling (with deflate) compression filters. SZIP Compression in HDF
- Users defined compression filters Third-party compression filters
gzip performance
gzip -c test.xtc > test.xtc.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 dubrovin br 168126152 Jan 23 14:48 test.xtc -rw-r--r-- 1 dubrovin br 88829288 Jan 23 14:51 test.xtc.gz compression factor = 1.89
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