Data

Data formats

Terms

7 terms

  • Apache Arrow

    Apache Arrow is a language-independent columnar in-memory data format that lets analytics tools share and process tabular data without conversion.

  • CSV

    CSV (comma-separated values) is a plain-text data format that stores tables as lines of records with fields separated by commas, readable by almost any tool.

  • JSON

    JSON is a lightweight text data format built from objects, arrays, strings, numbers, booleans and null, used widely for APIs and configuration.

  • NDJSON

    NDJSON is a data format that stores one complete JSON value per line, so large datasets and streams can be written and read record by record.

  • Parquet

    Parquet is an open columnar file format for analytical data that stores values by column with compression, encoding and statistics for fast scans.

  • XML

    XML is a text-based markup format that represents hierarchical data with nested, self-describing tags and supports strict validation through schemas.

  • YAML

    YAML is a human-readable data serialization format that uses indentation to express nested maps and lists, widely used for configuration.