Avro vs. Parquet

Question

I\'m planning to use one of the hadoop file format for my hadoop related project. I understand parquet is efficient for column based query and avro for full

Answer 1

Avro is a Row based format. If you want to retrieve the data as a whole you can use Avro

Parquet is a Column based format. If your data consists of a lot of columns but you are interested in a subset of columns then you can use Parquet

HBase is useful when frequent updating of data is involved. Avro is fast in retrieval, Parquet is much faster.