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by wenc 748 days ago
Agreed. On a scale of 10 in terms of current technology, CSV is a 1 while Parquet is 7. ORC is maybe 7.2. But parquet is far more ubiquitous than ORC (I’ve never seen ORC in prod but I also have limited sample sizes)

I’m sure there are more advanced formats.