Introduction

The HDF REST API is an interface to HDF5 data stored on network-based architectures. The HDF REST API has provisions to support CRUD (create, read, update and delete) operations on the full spectrum of HDF5 objects including: groups, links, datasets, attributes, and committed data types. See https://support.hdfgroup.org/pubs/papers/RESTful_HDF5.pdf for more information on the RESTful HDF5 interface.

As a REST-based API, implementations can be developed in a variety of languages, such as JavaScript, Python, C, and other common languages. Some services which implement the HDF REST API are:

HDF Kita: https://www.hdfgroup.org/hdf-kita

H5serv: https://github.com/HDFGroup/h5serv

HDF5 REST VOL: https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/users/jhenderson/repos/rest-vol/browse