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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.

Filenames

NOTE: Filenames that include special characters can cause problems during import or when publishing to a file-based datastore. Do not use the slash (/) character in your filenames.

Native Input File Formats

can read and import directly these file formats:

Excel (XLS/XLSX)
Tip: You may import multiple worksheets from a single workbook at one time. See Import Excel Data in the User Guide.

PDF
- PDF is supported for import only.
- See Import PDF Data in the User Guide.

CSV

JSON, including nested

NOTE: requires that JSON files be submitted with one valid JSON object per line. Consistently malformed JSON objects or objects that overlap linebreaks might cause import to fail. See Initial Parsing Steps in the User Guide

Plain Text
LOG
TSV
Parquet
NOTE: When working with datasets sourced from Parquet files, lineage information and the $sourcerownumber reference are not supported.

For more information on data is handled initially, see Initial Parsing Steps in the User Guide.

Native Output File Formats

can write to these file formats:

CSV
JSON

Tableau TDE

Avro

Parquet

Compression Algorithms

Read Native File Formats

	GZIP	BZIP	Snappy
CSV	Supported	Supported	Supported
JSON	Supported	Supported	Supported
Avro			Supported

Write Native File Formats

	GZIP	BZIP	Snappy
CSV	Supported	Supported	Supported
JSON	Supported	Supported	Supported
Avro			Supported; always on