Luckily for you, the big data community has basically settled on three optimized file formats for use in Hadoop clusters: Optimized Row Columnar (ORC), Avro, and Parquet. While these file formats ...

ENSDF contains evaluated data for half-lives, properties of ground and excited states of all nuclides and their decay characteristics. For each nuclide, all known experimental data used to deduce ...

CSV files are most commonly encountered in spreadsheets and databases. You can use a CSV file to move data between programs that aren't ordinarily able to exchange data.

We look at unstructured data, the myriad forms of data it comprises and the key storage options available, which include NAS and object storage on-prem and in the cloud.

Importing data into Excel from other sources can result in long, messy strings of text you need to parse. We'll show you how.

Globalization, digitization, broadband proliferation—these are the three big trends that have driven managed file transfer from the secured back room of bank transfers and data center backups to the ...

That potentially makes data in object storage well-suited to analytics too. Object storage is also well-suited to web operations and cloud-native applications than file and block.