.AVRO File Extension
- Developer by: Apache Software Foundation
- Category: Data Files
- Format: Text and Binary
What are .AVRO files and how to open them?
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What is a .AVRO file extension?
.AVRO file extension is created by Apache Software Foundation. .AVRO has been classified as Data Files. The format of .AVRO file is Text and Binary.
.AVRO is Avro Data File
An AVRO file is a data file created by Apache Avro, an open source data serialization system used by Apache Hadoop. It contains data serialized in a compact binary format and schema in JSON format that defines the data types. AVRO files may also store markers if the datasets are too large and need to be split into subsets when processed by Apache MapReduce in Apache Hadoop.
Avro was developed within the Apache Hadoop project, which is an open source platform used to store and process structured, semi-unstructured, and structured data without any format requirements. Avro is utilized in Apache Hadoop as a serialization format for persistent, or infrequently accessed, data. Since it stores data in a compact binary format, the Avro format is especially useful for the exchange of extremely large datasets.
NOTE: Avro can also be accessed as a data source by Apache Spark SQL.
List of all softwares that can open the Avro Data File
| Windows | | Apache Avro | | Apache Hadoop | |
| Mac | | Apache Avro | | Apache Hadoop | |
| Linux | | Apache Avro | | Apache Hadoop | |