Binary Formats: Protocol Buffers, MessagePack, Avro, HDF5 and Parquet
Compact, typed, fast formats for big or high-throughput data.
Intermediate
HDF5 (h5py) stores large instrument datasets; MessagePack is compact JSON-like serialisation for devices.
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