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.