This section contains information on the fie formats and compression schemes that are supported for input to and output of 

NOTE: To work with formats that are proprietary to a desktop application, such as Microsoft Excel, you do not need the supporting application installed on your desktop.

Native Input File Formats

 can read and import directly these file formats:

For more information on data is handled initially, see Initial Parsing Steps.

Native Output File Formats

 can write to these file formats:

Compression Algorithms

Read Native File Formats

Write Native File Formats

 GZIPBZIPSnappy
CSVSupportedSupportedSupported
JSONSupportedSupportedSupported
Avro  Supported; always on