---
title: "Reading and Writing Data with {arrow}"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/reading-and-writing-data-with-arrow--qtixoi1wb
source_url: https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/01/reading-and-writing-data-with-arrow/
type: article
source: "R-bloggers"
published: 2024-01-19T01:19:55.459Z
updated: 2026-06-04T02:15:08.092Z
tags: ["apache-arrow", "data-processing"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Reading and Writing Data with {arrow}

**[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

This post explores the reading and writing aspects of Apache Arrow, a cross-language development platform for in-memory data. It discusses the main file formats associated with Arrow, such as Parquet, Arrow/Feather, and CSV. It also explains Hive partitioning, a method used to split a table into multiple files based on partition keys.

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Tags: [#apache-arrow](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-arrow), [#data-processing](https://daily.dev/tags/data-processing)

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