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How many bytes are used to store null values in data lake?

DB_developer
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Geeta1
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Generally they require 1 byte

DB_developer
New Contributor III

Can you please provide any supporting documentation ?

-werners-
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there is no single answer to this.

If you look at parquet, which is a very common format on data lakes:

https://parquet.apache.org/docs/file-format/nulls/

and on SO

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