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• Efficient predicate pushdown. Can store all columns metadata together. Only query desired columns efficiently
• Parallel processing of splits natively supported
• Can provide UDF support if needed.
  • This may be useful for geo queries commonly used
  • Example: Table has latitude/longitude columns in table. But we can query data in hexagon/quad-tree efficiently using data skipping index.  using ranges for latitude and longitude may not be as effective.
• Better storage compression
• We can try different layouts by sorting data on different parameters (partition/fileId/columnBeingIndexed etc)

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