[Yt-dev] HDF5 Format for Merger Trees

[Stephen Skory]

> I just saw a presentation about a semi-analytic code called
> Galacticus, by Andrew Benson of Caltech.  He presented on an HDF5
> format for merger trees which is quite interesting, and certainly
> something I think we should pursue implementing.
> 
> http://www.ctcp.caltech.edu/galacticus/MergerTreeFileFormat.pdf


I didn't see the presentation, so I'm wondering how exactly this is better than a SQL database for storing *relational* data? I agree that storing the particle data in the SQL database, for example, is not good, but it seems to me that HDF5 is not ideal for what SQL is designed for.


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