Introduction

There are a LOT of file formats for efficiently storing structured data out there. Some are more relevant than others.

HDF5 is used for astrophysics. It is very similar to, but a bit more robust than, GTO.

OpenGTO is the Tweak Films data file format. Useful, but underspecified.

OpenSceneGraph is an Open Source C++ and !OpenGL scene description API

Comment by Nick.Por...@gmail.com, Jan 28, 2010

Don't forget Google's protocol buffers.

http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/

Comment by Drew.Whitehouse, Jul 27, 2010

BTW, HDF5 is used for a lot more than astrophysics, coming out of The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.

Comment by syoyofuj...@gmail.com, Jul 29, 2010

Also don't forget message pack, faster&compact than protobuf. http://msgpack.org/

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