Summary of Software Using HDF5 by Type
Name (with Product URL) Application Type Free / Commercial Platforms Languages Short Description  
HDF5 Indexing Prototype API for Bitmap and Projection Indices in HDF5 Free     Prototype for storing bitmap and projection indices in HDF5  
h5py API for HDF5 Free Linux, Mac, Windows Python Python interface to HDF5 more info
HDF Java Products API for HDF5 Free Many Java Java API for HDF and HDF5 and HDFView tool  
HDF5 .NET APIs API for HDF5 Free     Prototype wrappers for the HDF5 C library in the .NET environment  
HDF5 High Level APIs API for HDF5 Free   C, Fortran High Level APIs that come with HDF5 to simplify code and provide standards  
JHDF5 API for HDF5 Free   Java High Level Java API for HDF5  
NetCDF-4 API for HDF5 Free Many Fortran, C++, Java Set of interfaces for array-oriented data access  
HDF Explorer Browser/Editor Free Windows   Data Visualization program for HDF and HDF5 more info
HDFView Browser/Editor Free Many   Java-based tool for viewing and editing HDF and HDF5 files  
ViTables Browser/Editor Free Many   PyTables and HDF5 file viewer and editor more info
PyTables Database Free   Python Python API to organize and manipulate scientific data tables and other numeric objects more info
dxhdf5 Format Conversion Free     Import HDF5 data into Open DX more info
H5utils Format Conversion Free     Conversion and Visualization tools for HDF5   
HDF4 to HDF5 Conversion Library Format Conversion Free Linux, Solaris   Library and tools to convert HDF4 files to HDF5 files  
HDF5 XML Format Conversion       An HDF5 DTD and tool  
Cactus General Problem Solving Free     Problem solving environment  
GriKSL General Problem Solving Free     Develop grid-based simulation and viz techniques for CACTUS more info
h5check HDF Tools Free Linux, Solaris   A tool to check the validity of an HDF5 file  
HDF5 Utilities HDF Tools Free All   Utilities that come with HDF5 for analyzing and converting HDF5 files and compiling HDF5 applications  
LVHDF5 Instrumentation Free     Interface between NI LabVIEW and HDF5 more info
MAQbox Instrumentation Commercial     Portable data acquisition system more info
NI-HWS Instrumentation Commercial     Uses limited subset of HDF5 for storage and retrieval of waveforms and attributes more info
H5WS API Remote Access Free Linux C  API that allows remote HDF5 data access using Web Services. more info
HDF5 Mesh API Sci Data Mgmt Free   C Prototype for storing structured and unstructured grids in HDF5 see Ensight
HL-HDF Sci Data Mgmt Free   C, Python C & Python high level library for scientific data in HDF5 more info
ADIOS Special Purpose Free     IO componentization of different IO transport methods  
Bathymetric Attributed Grid Data Format Special Purpose Free Linux, Win32   File format for storing bathymetric data more info 
Bear Special Purpose Free     Bers slices and holomy representations more info
CGNS Special Purpose Free     Software for working with CFD Analysis data more info
Chombo Special Purpose Free     Tools for working with partial differential equations more info
FLASH Special Purpose Free     Code for simulation of thermonuclear flashes more info
H5Part, H5Block, H5PartROOT Special Purpose Free Many C, C++, Fortran A data storage schema and API for working with particle based simulations. more info
HDF-EOS Special Purpose Free     Software for working with remote-sensed data from Earth Observing System  
IGV Special Purpose Free Windows, Mac   Viewer for genomic data more info
LIBGPIV Special Purpose Free     Library for (Digital) Particle Image Velocimetry Technique more info
MED Special Purpose Free     Standard for storing and recovering data associated with numerical meshes and fields.  
OOPIC Pro Special Purpose Commercial   C++, GUI 2-D PIC (particle-in-cell) code with support for slab and cylindrical geometries more info
PAM-CRASH Special Purpose Commercial Unix, Linux, Windows C, Fortran ESI's open HDF5 database format to store results of FEM-based simulations  
Paramesh Special Purpose Free     Fortran subroutines to extend serial AMR code to parallel more info
Q5Cost Special Purpose Free   Fortran Library and interface used in Quantum Chemistry more info
RAMS Special Purpose       Atmospheric Modeling System more info
Scilab Special Purpose Free     Scientific software package for numerical computations  
Swarm Special Purpose Free     Simulator for fine-grained, composable scheduling more info
SWX Special Purpose Free     Space Weather Explorer to visualize space weather model output in 3D more info
THESEUS-FE Special Purpose Commercial Linux, Windows   Simulation software based on Finite-Element solver methodology for handling thermal radiation more info
Zori Special Purpose Free     Calculate properties of atoms/molecules using quantum Monte Carlo methods more info
R Statistics, Graphics Free   R System for statistical computation and graphics, has HDF5 interface more info
Field3D Visualization Free Linux, Mac  C++ Library/format for storing voxel data  
OSSIM Visualization Free     Open Source Software Image Map library for geospatial image processing more info
ParaView Visualization Free     Visualize large data sets in serial or parallel environments, using VTK more info
Tecplot Visualization Commercial Many   Interactive visualization program more info
BEAT Visualization/Analysis Free Unix, Windows,Mac   Toolkit for working w/atmospheric data more info
Data Visualizer for O-Matrix Visualization/Analysis Commercial Windows   O-Matrix command-line interface that works with Intel Array Visualizer more info
EnSight Visualization/Analysis Commercial Many   Tools for engineering and scientific simulation more info
Geomatica Visualization/Analysis Commercial     Integrated software system for remote sensing and image processing  
GNU Octave Visualization/Analysis Free     MATLAB-like tool more info
IDL Visualization/Analysis Commercial Many IDL Visualize and analyze HDF data with IDL. Query, read HDF files. more info
Igor Pro Visualization/Analysis Commercial Windows, Mac C, Igor Visualize/analyze 1D, 2D, 3D data more info
Intel Array Visualizer Visualization/Analysis Free Windows   Windows app to read, write, display array data from HDF4, HDF5, others more info
Mathematica Visualization/Analysis Commercial     Environment for technical tasks ranging from computations to visualizing or modeling data more info
MATLAB Visualization/Analysis Commercial Many   Numeric computation, advanced graphics and visualization. Query, read HDF files  more info
O-Matrix Visualization/Analysis Commercial     Interpreted matrix language for data analysis and visualization more info
Opticks Visualization/Analysis Free     Expandable remote sensing and imagery analysis platform  
PV-WAVE Visualization/Analysis Commercial Many PV-WAVE Visualization and Analysis language and environment more info
SLh5 Visualization/Analysis Free   S-Lang Open source HDF5 module for S-Lang more info
SYSTEMA / THERMICA Visualization/Analysis Commercial Linux, Solaris, Windows   Spacecraft modeler and thermal analyser more info
VisAD Visualization/Analysis Free   Java Java toolkit for interactive and collaborative viz and analysis more info
VisIt Visualization/Analysis Free     Tool for visualizing fields in 2D and 3D meshes more info
Yorick Visualization/Analysis Free Many Yorick Interpreted programming language  
Pomegranate Web service software, web API, library and command line tool Free and open source Independent Python Webification of science data files more info