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What is the MOST performant file format for loading data in Snowflake?

  • A. CSV (Unzipped)
  • B. Parquet
  • C. CSV (Gzipped)
  • D. ORC
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

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leozhang
Highly Voted 11 months ago
Selected Answer: C
Loading from Gzipped CSV is several times faster than loading from ORC and Parquet at an impressive 15 TB/Hour. While 5-6 TB/hour is decent if your data is originally in ORC or Parquet, don’t go out of your way to CREATE ORC or Parquet files from CSV in the hope that it will load Snowflake faster. Loading data into fully structured (columnarized) schema is ~10-20% faster than landing it into a VARIANT. https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/How-to-Load-Terabytes-Into-Snowflake-Speeds-Feeds-and-Techniques
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MultiCloudIronMan
Most Recent 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: C
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MultiCloudIronMan
6 months ago
should be B While CSV (Gzipped) (option C) is a commonly used format and can be efficient in terms of storage space due to compression, it is not as performant as Parquet (option B) for loading data in Snowflake.
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