Medium-EasyUnderstandData Storage & ProcessingMultiple Choice
Why is Parquet preferred over CSV for analytics workloads?
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Answer Options
AParquet is easier to read with text editors
BParquet is columnar — only needed columns are read; better compression
CParquet files are always smaller than CSV
DParquet supports more data types than CSV
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