I am a mechanical engineer that has picked up functional bits of programming, but I am lacking thorough insight. I searched for answer to this question but couldn't find anything.

I am making a django web application to search and filter test data stored in a mysql database. My question regards the best method to store the data? 

The data are large arrays of numbers that might be 5,000 values in length and each number looks like this 0.000012341245345. These are measurements taken off of accelerometers. I don't know how accurate all those significant figures are, but I want to store everything as I get it.

**The Question:** What Django field type would I use? This field does not have to be searchable. I just want to pull the data when called.

Everything in django seems to be unicode. I have been reading up on packing numbers as double precision binary numbers. But if I store a unicode string like this '\x1e1\x1d6\xea\X00a2' will that really help me keep the memory requirements down?

Thanks. Any help is appreciated.