For which use case is Apache Avro most commonly chosen over Parquet?
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Avro is a row-oriented format with built-in schema definitions stored in JSON; it is widely used for Kafka message serialization and write-heavy streaming scenarios where full-row access patterns dominate.
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Full Explanation
Avro is a row-oriented format with built-in schema definitions stored in JSON; it is widely used for Kafka message serialization and write-heavy streaming scenarios where full-row access patterns dominate. The incorrect options ("OLAP analytics requiring fast column scans", "Storing time-series data with high compression ratios", "Querying nested arrays in a lakehouse with Presto") are distractors that don't fully capture the concept described.