2008 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > Introduction to NetCDF-4
11.12 Ample Variable Sizes
Most constraints on variable size are eliminated in netCDF-4.
- Although netCDF-3 supports extremely large files, non-record
variables are limited in size to 4 GiB each
- In netCDF-3, each record slice of a record-variable is similarly
limited in size, even on 64-bit platforms
- The HDF5 format used by netCDF-4 eliminates these size constraints
2008 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > Introduction to NetCDF-4