[earthscienceman]

Also, in these fields with HDF5, you tend to write once read often. Bioinformatics and other HPC using researchers have totally different resource consumption than web services. 'Data' really means something completely different.

[adev_]

> Also, in these fields with HDF5, you tend to write once read often

Server oriented DBMS specialized in write-once-read-many workflow do exist.

However, you are right: research have completely different data consumption model than web service.

And in HPC, it is: - Much more efficient to do sub-milliseconds massive parallel data access over a parallel DFS, one network switch away than it is do it over a DBMS.

- Often much more convenient to move a flat file around to do analysis/model modifications of scientifics results on your laptop.