Optimized Row Columnar Format
The smallest, fastest columnar storage format for Hadoop workloads. ORC provides highly efficient compression, predicate pushdown, and ACID transaction support, making it ideal for Hive-based data warehousing.
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Schema-Based Data Serialization
A data serialization system that provides rich data structures, a compact binary format, and schema evolution support. Avro is widely used in Apache Kafka ecosystems for encoding messages with schema registry integration.
Columnar Storage Format
A columnar storage format available to any project in the Hadoop ecosystem. Parquet provides efficient compression and encoding schemes, making it the de facto standard for analytical workloads in data lakes and warehouses.
Cross-Language Services Framework
A software framework for scalable cross-language services development. Thrift combines a serialization format with an RPC framework, enabling efficient communication between services written in different programming languages.