Hire me to supercharge your Hadoop and Spark projects I help businesses improve their return on investment from big data projects. I do everything from software architecture to staff training. Learn More Note, I use ‘File Format’ and ‘Storage Format’ interchangably in this article. If you’ve read my beginners guide to Hadoop you should remember that an important part of the Hadoop ecosystem is HDF
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