This document provides a comprehensive overview of Apache CarbonData, an open-source columnar storage format for Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). It details its features, building process, documentation, community engagement, and contact information. This guide also includes instructions on how to contribute to the project.
Features
CarbonData file format is a columnar store in HDFS, it has many features that a modern columnar format has, such as splittable, compression schema, complex data type etc, and CarbonData has following unique features:
Building CarbonData
CarbonData is built using Apache Maven, to build CarbonData
Online Documentation
Experimental Features
Some features are marked as experimental because the syntax/implementation might change in the future.
Integration
Other Technical Material
Fork and Contribute
This is an active open source project for everyone, and we are always open to people who want to use this system or contribute to it.
This guide document introduces how to contribute to CarbonData.
Contact us
To get involved in CarbonData:
First join by emailing to [email protected], then you can discuss issues by emailing to [email protected].
You can also directly visit [email protected].
Or you can visit Apache CarbonData Dev Mailing List archive.
Report issues on github issues.
You can also slack to get in touch with the community. After we invite you, you can use this Slack Link to sign in to CarbonData.
About
Apache CarbonData is an open source project of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF).