Cascading Avro Tap performance

March 18, 2011
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Back in January, Matt Pouttu-Clarke posted his results from using the Cascading Avro tap we’d created a while back. The most interesting result was comparing performance between parsing CSV files and reading Avro files: 13.5x faster is a nice improvement over the very common practice of using text files for information exchange. Side note: we recently released the 1.0 version, and pushed it to the Conjars repository.