orc

What is a .orc file?

application/x-orc

Apache ORC (Optimized Row Columnar, .orc) is a binary columnar format from the Hadoop ecosystem. It stores data in stripes with lightweight indexes, per-column compression, and embedded statistics, and is common in Hive and big-data pipelines.

How to use a .orc file

Use an example .orc file to test ORC readers, stripe and index handling, and ORC-to-Parquet/CSV conversion.

Download example .orc file

ORC — Columnar TableThe same employee table as Apache ORC — the columnar format common in the Hive/Hadoop ecosystem. For testing ORC readers and Parquet↔ORC conversion.

Convert a .orc file to another format

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