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		swyx on May 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Big data is dead (2023) > 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

riku_iki on May 28, 2024 [–]

Likely this assumes that parquet has internal compression applied, and CSV is uncompressed.

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