title: Is HDF5 an Appropriate Technology to Store JSON Data?
body: <p>I've inherited some code which makes calls to a web API, and get's a deeply nested (up to eight levels) response. </p>
  
  <p>I've written some code to flatten the structure so that it can be written to .csv files, and a SQL database, for people to consume more easily. </p>
  
  <p>What I'd really like to do though is keep a version of the original response, so that there's a reference of the original structure if I ever want/need it. </p>
  
  <p>I understand that HDF5 is primarily meant to store numerical data. Is there any reason not to use it to dump JSON blobs? It seems a lot easier than setting up a NoSQL database.</p>