Supported data and storage formats - Amazon Athena
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Supported data and storage formats

The following table shows formats that are supported natively in Athena for Apache Spark.

Data format Read Write Write compression
parquet yes yes none, uncompressed, snappy, gzip
orc yes yes none, snappy, zlib, lzo
json yes yes bzip2, gzip, deflate
csv yes yes bzip2, gzip, deflate
text yes yes none, bzip2, gzip, deflate
binary file yes N/A N/A