# Supported data and storage formats
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The following table shows formats that are supported natively in Athena for Apache Spark.


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| **Data format** | **Read** | **Write** | **Write compression** | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| parquet | yes | yes | none, uncompressed, snappy, gzip | 
| orc | yes | yes | none, snappy, zlib, lzo | 
| json | yes | yes | bzip2, gzip, deflate | 
| csv | yes | yes | bzip2, gzip, deflate | 
| text | yes | yes | none, bzip2, gzip, deflate | 
| binary file | yes | N/A | N/A |