Semi-structured DataΒΆ
Data can come from many sources, including applications, sensors, and mobile devices. To support these diverse data sources, semi-structured data formats have become popular standards for transporting and storing data.
Snowflake provides built-in support for importing data from (and exporting data to) the following semi-structured data formats:
JSON
Avro
ORC
Parquet
XML
Snowflake provides native data types (ARRAY, OBJECT, and VARIANT) for storing semi-structured data.
Snowflake also provides native support for querying semi-structured data.
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