Deprecate `pytables` in favor of `h5py` or a new format

[ld-cd]

pytables is a pretty consistent packaging issue and does not package all its depends (namely the hdf5 library) it should likely be replaced with h5py for maintaining file compatibility and if in-kernel queries are really needed we should switch to a more modern data format going forward like parquet and use either pandas or polars for queries.

The other alternative is vendoring pytables and committing to maintaining python compatibility and functional packaging going forward but this is not something I have time to do

[bmazin]

I think getting rid of pytables would be a ton of work, this should be a low priority unless there is a real show stopper.

[ld-cd]

Options for OLAP databases:

• polars: parquet backing store
• ClickHouse: ??
• DuckDB: parquet backing store
• pandas: kind of an OLAP, also supports parquet as a backing store
• sqlite: in standard library, not going to be fast though although potentially better than the current situation, no input from other formats easily though

DuckDB publishes a perf comparison (so keep the bias in mind): https://duckdblabs.github.io/db-benchmark/

50G group by is likely the most representative of the hot path in our workload currently.

[ld-cd]

For a new format binney will serialize into parqut files https://mazinlab.github.io/binney/binney.html#BinDirectory

and has optional polars support https://mazinlab.github.io/binney/binney.html#BinDirectoryDF