ORC is a self-describing type-aware columnar file format designed for Hadoop workloads. It is optimized for large streaming reads, but with integrated support for finding required rows quickly.

CHM is applicable to multiple scales from the basin scale, to the provincial/state scale and beyond. It may also be applied at a single point-scale. Output is in the vtu file format, allowing for ...

Think of WAV (“Waveform Audio File Format”) and AIFF (“Audio Interchange File Format”) as large, sturdy moving boxes. They store every single sample — 44.1 kHz/16-bit for classic CD ...