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File formats

The following table lists the format types that Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Connector uses to read and write data in mappings and mappings in advanced mode:
Mappings
Mappings in advanced mode
  • - Flat
  • - Binary
  • - Avro (Primitive data types)
  • - JSON (Primitive data types)
  • - ORC (Primitive data types)
  • - Parquet (Primitive data types)
  • - Delta (Primitive data types)
  • - Flat
  • - Avro (Primitive and hierarchical data types)
  • - JSON (Primitive and hierarchical data types)
  • - ORC (Primitive and hierarchical data types)
  • - Parquet (Primitive and hierarchical data types)
  • - Discover structure*
  • - Document*
*You can only read data of the discover structure file format and document file format with mappings in advanced mode.