HighFive is a modern C++/C++11 friendly interface for libhdf5.

HighFive supports STL vector/string, Boost::UBLAS and Boost::Multi-array. It handles C++ from/to HDF5 automatic type mapping. HighFive does not require an additional library and supports both HDF5 thread safety and Parallel HDF5 (contrary to the official hdf5 cpp)

• Simple C++-ish minimalist interface
• No other dependency than libhdf5
• Zero overhead
• Support C++11 ( compatible with C++98 )

• libhdf5
• (optional) boost >= 1.41

using namespace HighFive;
// we create a new hdf5 file
File file("/tmp/new_file.h5", File::ReadWrite | File::Create | File::Truncate);

std::vector<int> data(50, 1);

// let's create a dataset of native interger with the size of the vector 'data'
DataSet dataset = file.createDataSet<int>("/dataset_one",  DataSpace::From(data));

// let's write our vector of int to the HDF5 dataset
dataset.write(data);

// read back
std::vector<int> result;
dataset.read(result);

See create_dataset_double.cpp

See boost_ublas_double.cpp

See select_partial_dataset_cpp11.cpp

See create_attribute_string_integer.cpp

See src/examples/ sub-directory for more infos

c++ -o program -I/path/to/highfive/include source.cpp  -lhdf5

Remember: Compilation is not required. Used only for unit test and examples

mkdir build; pushd build
cmake ../
make
make test

• create/read/write file, dataset, group, dataspace.
• automatic memory management / ref counting
• automatic convertion of std::vector and nested std::vector from/to any dataset with basic types
• automatic convertion of std::string to/from variable length string dataset
• selection() / slice support
• parallel Read/Write operations from several nodes with Parallel HDF5
• support HDF5 attributes

• Adrien Devresse [email protected] - Blue Brain Project
• Ali Can Demiralp [email protected] -
• Fernando Pereira [email protected] - Blue Brain Project
• Stefan Eilemann [email protected] - Blue Brain Project
• Tristan Carel [email protected] - Blue Brain Project
• Wolf Vollprecht [email protected] - QuantStack

Boost Software License 1.0