ORC, or Optimized Row Columnar, is a popular big data file storage format. Its rise in popularity is due to it being highly performant, very compressible, and progressively more supported by top-level Apache products, like Hive, Crunch, Cascading, Spark, and more.
I recently wanted/needed to write ORC files from my Spark pipelines, and found specific documentation lacking. So, here’s a way to do it.Read More »