Big Data File Formats Demystified

By Alex Woodie

So you’re filling your Hadoop cluster with reams of raw data, and your data analysts and scientists are champing at the bit to get started. Then the question hits you: How are you going to store all this data so they can actually use it?

The good news is Hadoop is one of the most cost-effective ways to store huge amounts of data. You can store all types of structured, semi-structure, and unstructured data within the Hadoop Distributed File System, and process it in a variety of ways using Hive, HBase, Spark, and many other engines.

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