Data Formats¶

Database¶

MySQL

XML ¶

XML Parser Libs¶

Free C or C++ XML Parser Libraries
TinyXML is a simple, small, C++ XML parser that can be easily integrating into other programs.
Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project.

YAML¶

YAML is an international collaboration to make a data serialization language which is both human readable and computationally powerful.

yaml-cpp is a YAML parser and emitter in C++ matching the YAML 1.2 spec.

JSON¶

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format.

JSON中文网
JSON Editor Online
Json在线解析及格式化验证
antonmedv/fx: Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer

CSON¶

CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. Same as JSON but for CoffeeScript objects.

bevry/cson

Excel¶

LibXL is a library that can read and write Excel files. It doesn't require Microsoft Excel and .NET framework, combines an easy to use and powerful features.
xlsLib: A C/C++ multi-platform library for dynamically generating Excel(TM) files
Libxlsxwriter is a C library that can be used to write text, numbers, formulas and hyperlinks to multiple worksheets in an Excel 2007+ XLSX file
XLSX I/O - C library for reading and writing .xlsx files
Java Excel API - A Java API to read, write, and modify Excel spreadsheets

Protocol Buffers¶

Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler.

FlatBuffers¶

FlatBuffers is an efficient cross platform serialization library for C++, C#, C, Go, Java, JavaScript, Lobster, Lua, TypeScript, PHP, Python, and Rust. It was originally created at Google for game development and other performance-critical applications.

HDF - Hierarchical Data Format¶

Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) is a data file format designed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to assist users in the storage and manipulation of scientific data across diverse operating systems and machines.

SDK¶

C++
Bash
```
sudo apt-get install libhdf5-dev
```
HDF5 files in Python
Bash
```
conda install h5py
```

Tools¶

hdf5-tools

Bash

sudo apt install hdf5-tools

h5dump file.h5

hdfview
Bash
```
sudo apt install hdfview
```
Panoply netCDF, HDF and GRIB Data Viewer