How can I speed up the loading of a large zipped CSV file in databricks

[aladda · Accepted solution]

gzip format is not splittable so the load process is sequential and thus slower. You can either try to split the CSV up into parts, gzip those separately and load them. Alternatively bzip is a splittable zip format that is better to work with

Or you can also try Pigz alternative to gzip - https://ostechnix.com/pigz-compress-and-decompress-files-in-parallel-in-linux/