Apache CarbonData

{{Short description|Column-oriented data storage format}}

{{Primary sources|date=June 2019}}

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| name = Apache CarbonData

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| caption = Apache CarbonData

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| released = {{Start date and age|2013|df=yes}} {{Cite press release|url=http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/05/01/974937/0/en/The-Apache-Software-Foundation-Announces-Apache-CarbonData-as-a-Top-Level-Project.html|title=The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® CarbonData™ as a Top-Level Project|first=The Apache Software|last=Foundation|date=May 1, 2017|website=GlobeNewswire News Room}}

| latest release version = 2.3.0

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2022|3|12|df=yes}}{{Cite web|url=https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CARBONDATA/Releases|title=Releases - CarbonData - Apache Software Foundation|website=cwiki.apache.org}}

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| operating system = Cross-platform

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| genre = Database management system

| license = Apache License 2.0

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Apache CarbonData is a free and open-source column-oriented data storage format of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It is similar to the other columnar-storage file formats available in Hadoop namely RCFile and ORC. It is compatible with most of the data processing frameworks in the Hadoop environment. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance to handle complex data in bulk.