Industry
All industries but broadly used in biomedicine
Language
Python, Julia, JavaScript, Other – Rust, C++, etc.
Features
Data Wrangling | Big Data
Modeling | Numerical Computing
High Performance Computing
Modeling | Numerical Computing
High Performance Computing
Zarr is a spec for storing chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays; several languages’ implementations of that spec; and an associated ecosystem of tools and integrations that use them.
Zarr is broadly used in biomedicine (malaria genomics, scRNAseq, spatial transcriptomics, neuroscience, etc.) and beyond (many geoscience fields).
It fills a need for simple, scalable N-dimensional array storage in the cloud era; scientists from many disciplines have flocked to it to solve a need historically filled by HDF5. It has a vibrant open ecosystem and distributed, grassroots developer-and user-base, and supports the NetCDF data model, allowing drop-in integration with a wide variety of systems and use-cases.
