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Flatfiles ingestion on Bronze layer, 'to schema' or 'not to schemarize'?

7effrey
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Hi all, What is the general guideline for handling flatfiles (xml, json with several nested hierarchies that is also schema evolving) in the bronze layer?

Should I persist the file content into a single column as text in the parquet file

or

should I let spark infer a schema and have it output a parquet file with several columns representing the content of the xml/json file?

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