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File Formats and Compression

File Formats

Hive supports several file formats:

The hive.default.fileformat configuration parameter determines the format to use if it is not specified in a CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE statement.  Text file is the parameter's default value.

For more information, see Row Format, Storage Format, and SerDe.

File Compression

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