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 |
