Apache CarbonData

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Apache CarbonData

Initial release	2013; 9 years ago (2013) [1]
Stable release	1.6.0 / 28 August 2019; 2 years ago (2019-08-28)[2]
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Database management system
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	carbondata.apache.org

Apache CarbonData is a free and open-source column-oriented data storage format of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It is similar to the other columnar-storage file formats available in Hadoop namely RCFile and ORC. It is compatible with most of the data processing frameworks in the Hadoop environment. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance to handle complex data in bulk.

History[]

CarbonData was first developed at Huawei in 2013. The project was submitted to the Apache Incubator in June 2016, and had its first official release two months later. The project won top honors in the BlackDuck 2016 Open Source Rookies of the Year's Big Data category. Since May 1, 2017, Apache CarbonData is a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project.^[1]

See also[]

• Pig (programming tool)
• Apache Hive
• Apache Impala
• Apache Drill
• Apache Kudu
• Apache Spark
• Apache Thrift
• Apache Parquet
• Trino (SQL query engine)
• Presto (SQL query engine)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website