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Mastering Hadoop 3
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Mastering Hadoop 3

by Timothy Wong, Chanchal Singh, Manish Kumar
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
544 pages
14h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Row format and column format

It is one of the most important factors when selecting a file format that indicates if a row or column-based format is something that is best suited to our objectives. The column-based storage file format gives better performance when we perform analytic queries that require only a subset of columns to be analysed over large datasets. In columnar formats, data is stored sequentially by column from left to right, top to bottom. If data is grouped by column, then it makes it more efficient to easily focus computation on specified columns of data. Accessing relevant columns of data will save significant amounts of compute costs because unwanted columns are ignored. Column-based storage is also well-suited for sparse ...

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ISBN: 9781788620444