We get data in Json format. I was initially thinking of simply storing Json
in hdfs for processing. I see there is Avro that does the similar thing but
most likely stores it in more optimized format. I wanted to get users
opinion on which one is better.

Moving this to the user@avro lists. Please use the right lists for the
best answers and the right people.

I'd pick Avro out of the two - it is very well designed for typed data
and has a very good implementation of the serializer/deserializer,
aside of the schema advantages. FWIW, Avro has a tojson CLI tool to
dump Avro binary format out as JSON structures, which would be of help
if you seek readability and/or integration with apps/systems that
already depend on JSON.

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We get data in Json format. I was initially thinking of simply storing Json
> in hdfs for processing. I see there is Avro that does the similar thing but
> most likely stores it in more optimized format. I wanted to get users
> opinion on which one is better.

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Harsh J