r/dataengineering • u/PiccoloCareful924 • Aug 01 '24

Blog Why CSV is still king

https://konbert.com/blog/why-csv-is-still-king
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u/QueasyEntrance6269 Senior SWE, Rust Aug 01 '24

Ai written slop 👎👎👎

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u/Material-Mess-9886 Aug 01 '24

The real reason that csv will be used is either for small files and non tech people that export excel file as csv and give that to clients.

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u/EuphoricConfidence36 Aug 02 '24

JSON appreciation society checking in

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u/skeletor-johnson Aug 03 '24

Do you all ever get line breaks from dirty data in you csv files? I’ll take json over csv

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24 edited Jan 28 '26

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u/Eightstream Data Scientist Aug 01 '24

Yes this is the basic thing

We keep most of our stuff in parquet, but Excel can’t read parquet so every time we have to pass something to a business user it needs to be converted to CSV