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Re:Show HN: DataProfiler – What's in your data? Extract sche... by BugsJustFindMe on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:37AM (#27107202)
> File formats that make you infer the schema (CSV) are on the way out.

Lol, good luck. People will continue using delimited text files for as long as they have eyeballs.

Re:Show HN: DataProfiler – What's in your data? Extract sche... by MrPowers on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:40AM (#27107246)
Yea, haha, that was worded too strongly. Should have said "more folks are using Parquet for data workflows and adoption seems to be increasing". CSV is better when you need something mutable / human readable, so they'll always be around.
Re:Show HN: DataProfiler – What's in your data? Extract sche... by citilife on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:48AM (#27107357)
Main issue with Parquet is actually the metadata. CSV is nice because I can send it to a friend and they can instantly understand it; you can print it and understand it.

In contrast, Parquet is good for systems and I definitely recommend it in programming, but sharing.. not so much.