What is the difference between .xpt and .feather?
- Extension
- .xpt
- .feather
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Data
- Data
- Developer
- SAS Institute
- The Apache Software Foundation
- Description
- An XPT file is a SAS dataset in the XPORT transport format, the format regulators such as the US FDA ask clinical trial data to be submitted in.
- A Feather file is a data table written by pandas, R or pyarrow; Feather version 2 is the Apache Arrow IPC file format, usually with LZ4 or ZSTD compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-sas-xport
- application/vnd.apache.arrow.file