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Subject: Best format to use
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Trying to determine what the best format to use for storing daily logs. =
We recently switch from snappy (.snappy) to gzip (.deflate) but I'm =
wondering if there is something better? Our main clients for these daily =
logs are pig and hive using an external table. We were thinking about =
testing out impala but we see that it doesn't work with compressed text =
files. Any suggestions?=20

Thanks=