orc
What is a .orc file?
application/x-orc
Apache ORC (Optimized Row Columnar, .orc) is a binary columnar format from the Hadoop ecosystem. It stores data in stripes with lightweight indexes, per-column compression, and embedded statistics, and is common in Hive and big-data pipelines.
How to use a .orc file
Use an example .orc file to test ORC readers, stripe and index handling, and ORC-to-Parquet/CSV conversion.
Download example .orc files
- ORC: Columnar TableThe same employee table as Apache ORC: the columnar format common in the Hive/Hadoop ecosystem. For testing ORC readers and Parquet↔ORC conversion.
- Convert v2 ORC Employee Table SourceBinary orc source for the five-row P8 employee conversion table, preserving ids, names, departments, booleans, and scores. Stable P8 artifact p8-convert-orc-source.