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

Filenames

Forbidden characters in import filenames:

The following list of characters present issues in the listed area of the product. If you encounter issues, the following listings may provide some guidance on where the issue occurred.

• General:

  "/"

• Seb browser: 

  "\"

• Spark running environment:

  "{", "*", "\"

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 Hyper
  
  

  NOTE: Publication of results in Hyper format may require additional configuration. See below.

• Avro

• Parquet

Compression Algorithms

Read Native File Formats

Write Native File Formats