Apache Orc VS Apache Parquet

Compare Apache Orc vs Apache Parquet and see what are their differences.

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Apache Orc Apache Parquet
4 4
654 2,407
0.9% 2.9%
9.4 9.2
4 days ago 5 days ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Apache Orc

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache Orc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-01.
  • Java Serialization with Protocol Buffers
    6 projects | dev.to | 1 Nov 2022
    The information can be stored in a database or as files, serialized in a standard format and with a schema agreed with your Data Engineering team. Depending on your information and requirements, it can be as simple as CSV, XML or JSON, or Big Data formats such as Parquet, Avro, ORC, Arrow, or message serialization formats like Protocol Buffers, FlatBuffers, MessagePack, Thrift, or Cap'n Proto.
  • Personal data of 120,000 Russian servicemen fighting in Ukraine made public
    2 projects | /r/worldnews | 1 Mar 2022
  • AWS EMR Cost Optimization Guide
    1 project | dev.to | 14 Dec 2021
    Data formatting is another place to make gains. When dealing with huge amounts of data, finding the data you need can take up a significant amount of your compute time. Apache Parquet and Apache ORC are columnar data formats optimized for analytics that pre-aggregate metadata about columns. If your EMR queries column intensive data like sum, max, or count, you can see significant speed improvements by reformatting data like CSVs into one of these columnar formats.
  • Apache Hudi - The Streaming Data Lake Platform
    8 projects | dev.to | 27 Jul 2021
    The following stack captures layers of software components that make up Hudi, with each layer depending on and drawing strength from the layer below. Typically, data lake users write data out once using an open file format like Apache Parquet/ORC stored on top of extremely scalable cloud storage or distributed file systems. Hudi provides a self-managing data plane to ingest, transform and manage this data, in a way that unlocks incremental data processing on them.

Apache Parquet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache Parquet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-11.
  • How-to-Guide: Contributing to Open Source
    19 projects | /r/dataengineering | 11 Jun 2022
    Apache Parquet
  • parquet-tools
    3 projects | /r/golang | 23 Jan 2022
    This go implementation, other than common advantages from go itself (small single executable, support multiple platforms, speed, etc.), has some neat features compare with Java parquet tool and Python one like:
  • Writing Apache Parquet Files
    2 projects | /r/androiddev | 30 May 2021
    Hi, I've been trying to write parquet files on android for the past couple of days, and have really been struggling to find a solution. My original hypothesis was to just use the java parquet implementation (https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr), but I've since realized that not all java libraries play well with Android. I've gone through essentially dependency hell trying to franken-fit the library into my project, and imported as much as i could before hitting walls such as this one (https://github.com/mockito/mockito/issues/841).
  • pqrs: A parquet-tools replacement in Rust using Apache Arrow
    2 projects | /r/dataengineering | 18 Feb 2021
    Like many of you probably do, I tend to work with Parquet files a lot. parquet-tools has been my tool of choice for inspecting parquet files, but that has been deprecated recently. So, I created a replacement for it using Rust and Apache Arrow.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Apache Orc and Apache Parquet you can also consider the following projects:

Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

Apache Avro - Apache Avro is a data serialization system.

Apache Thrift - Apache Thrift

hudi - Upserts, Deletes And Incremental Processing on Big Data.

Big Queue - A big, fast and persistent queue based on memory mapped file.

tape - A lightning fast, transactional, file-based FIFO for Android and Java.

Wire - gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift and Java.

debezium - Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://issues.redhat.com/browse/DBZ.

Persistent Collection - A Persistent Java Collections Library