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Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 22, 2019 · Big Data

How AliORC Supercharges MaxCompute: Inside the Next‑Gen Columnar Format

This article explains how Alibaba's MaxCompute platform evolved its storage engine from row‑based CFile to the columnar AliORC format, details the technical innovations such as async prefetch, small I/O elimination, adaptive dictionary encoding, and range‑aligned reads, and compares its performance against Apache ORC and Parquet.

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How AliORC Supercharges MaxCompute: Inside the Next‑Gen Columnar Format