I developed an archive system for our spacecraft TM/TC using HDF5 with blosc-lz compression for speed reasons (and I plan to move to Zstd in the future). One of

I developed an archive system for our spacecraft TM/TC using HDF5 with blosc-lz compression for speed reasons (and I plan to move to Zstd in the future). One of the main issue I have seen in the industry is the difficulty to upgrade the hardware so we have to design something working great on regular hard drives and with minimal RAM requirements. While HDF5 is good when you manage the whole system, it is always tricky for sharing data with other people so we are also using SQLite. We lose the compression but it is very easy to share and people are more familiar with it.