https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/com-databricks-spark-xml-parsing-xml-takes-a-very-long-time/m-p/130453#M93139 <P>There's also HAR files, "Hadoop archive files", which are a halfway house between a tar file and unexpanded files: they all live in a single .har file, but the work is split up into the analytics code as independent XML files. </P><P>see <A href="http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-archives/HadoopArchives.html">Har files</A></P> Fri, 20 Jan 2017 22:08:44 GMT stevel 2017-01-20T22:08:44Z