- The default delimiter for reading from file in Hive is
\t. - We can save data to the below formats only by using INSERT INTO/ INSERT OVERWRITE command
- Parquet, ORC, RCF store the metadata along with the data (So if we use an small file the compressed file will be larger than the original)
- Formats like Parquet and ORC are called “Compression File Formats”
Supported File Formats: Text, ORC, RCF, Parquet, Sequence File Not Supported Format: Avro