Premier Storage Formats
Apache Parquet
Columnar storage optimized for analytics
85% Compression
Schema Evolution
Cloud Optimized
Avro
Row-based format with dynamic schemas
JSON Schema
RPC Support
Data Contracts
Arrow
In-memory columnar format
Zero-copy
GPU Support
Language Agnostic
Protobuf
Google's portable binary protocol
Strong Typing
Backward Compatible
Nano-Speed
Technical Comparison
Format
Compression
Schema
Streaming
Parquet
Excellent
Static
Partial
Avro
Good
Dynamic
Full
Arrow
None
Fixed
Full
Protobuf
Fair
Static
Full