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ORC is an Apache project delivering the smallest, fastest columnar storage for Hadoop workloads. It provides ACID transactions with snapshot isolation and built-in per-column indexes (min, max, bloom filters), plus support for complex Hive types such as structs, lists, maps, and unions. The project offers downloads and documentation with integration guides for Spark, Python, Hive, Hadoop, and Java, under the Apache License as part of the Apache Software Foundation.
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