Format to use when storing object in HDFStore. Value can be one of: ``'fixed'`` Fixed format. Fast writing/reading. Not-appendable, nor searchable. ``'table'`` Table format. Write as a PyTables Table structure which may perform worse but allow more flexible operations like searching / selecting subsets of the data. index : bool, default True Write DataFrame index as a column. append : bool, default False This will force Table format, append the input data to the existing. data_columns : list of columns or True, default None List of columns to create as data columns, or True to use all columns. See `here `__. encoding : str, default None Provide an encoding for strings. track_times : bool, default True Parameter is propagated to 'create_table' method of 'PyTables'. If set to False it enables to have the same h5 files (same hashes) independent on creation time. dropna : bool, default False, optional Remove missing values. .. versionadded:: 1.1.0 Nú