hdf5

[Daniel Heiserer]

Hi,

as far as I have seen octave (http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave)
uses the hdf5 file format, so I would like to know something 
which I couldn't find in the documentation.

Is the hdf5 file format a database or is it a sequential file?

I have tons of matrices I want to store and retrieve from 
the 'database'. Is hdf5 the right thing or can it conly be
used for simple loading and saving data in a sequential way?

If hdf5 is not a database, is it hard to "combine"
some databases like BerkeleyDB or GDB with hdf5 to
create a scientific database?

Thanks for your help

Daniel



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