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Re:Big data is dead (2023) by swyx on Monday May 27, 2024 @09:15PM (#40496432)
> They are 10x smaller than CSV. So 600GB instead of 6TB.

how? lossless compression? under what scenario?

vague headlines like this just beg more questions

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Re:Big data is dead (2023) by riku_iki on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @02:03PM (#40503577)
Likely this assumes that parquet has internal compression applied, and CSV is uncompressed.
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