- Extension
- .avro
- .arrow
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Data
- Data
- Developer
- The Apache Software Foundation
- The Apache Software Foundation
- Description
- An Avro object container file holds records together with the JSON schema that describes them, in a compact binary encoding. It is common in Kafka and Hadoop pipelines.
- An Arrow IPC file holds a data table in Apache Arrow's in-memory columnar layout, so it can be memory-mapped and read without conversion. Feather version 2 files are the same format.
- MIME Type
- application/avro
- application/vnd.apache.arrow.file