HDF5: High-level APIs

The HDF5 High-level APIs (application programming interfaces) are a set of functions built on top of the main HDF5 Library.

HDF5 Lite (H5LT) is designed to as a convenience API, performing more operations per call than the basic HDF5 interfaces.

Other high-level HDF5 APIs are sets of functions that provide standard object interfaces and definitions: images (H5IM), tables (H5TB), packet tables (H5PT), and dimension scales (H5DS).

HDF5 High-level Reference Manual
	H5LT: HDF5 Lite API H5IM: HDF5 Image API H5TB: HDF5 Table API H5PT: HDF5 Packet Table API (and C++) H5DS: HDF5 Dimension Scales API
Guides and Tutorial
	HDF5 Tutorial	The HDF5 Tutorial, with a section covering the high-level APIs
	HDF5 Packet Table API Introduction	An introduction to the HDF5 Packet Table APIs
	HDF5 Packet Table Use Cases	Packet table use cases
Specifications
	HDF5 Image and Palette Specification	The HDF5 Image specification
	HDF5 Table Specification	The specification for the HDF5 Table API
	HDF5 Dimension Scale Specification (PDF)	The specification for the HDF5 Dimension Scale API

The HDF5 high-level APIs are contained in a single library, which is distributed with the main HDF5 Library. In most circumstances, the high-level APIs are compiled and installed along with the HDF5 Library.

HDF5 documents and links
Introduction to HDF5
HDF5 User Guide
Other High-level API documents

And in this document, the HDF5 Reference Manual
H5DS   H5IM   H5LT   H5PT   H5TB
H5   H5A   H5D   H5E   H5F   H5G   H5I   H5L
H5O   H5P   H5R   H5S   H5T   H5Z   Tools   Datatypes