File type | Microsoft Visual Studio Visual C/C++ Resource Script Format |
Developer | Microsoft |
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How to open RC files
If you cannot open the RC file on your computer - there may be several reasons. The first and most important reason (the most common) is the lack of a suitable software that supports RC among those that are installed on your device.
A very simple way to solve this problem is to find and download the appropriate application. The first part of the task has already been done – the software supporting the RC file can be found in the table. Now just download and install the appropriate application.
Program(s) that can open the .RC file
Possible problems with the RC format files
The inability to open and operate the RC file does not necessarily mean that you do not have an appropriate software installed on your computer. There may be other problems that also block our ability to operate the Microsoft Visual Studio Visual C/C++ Resource Script Format file. Below is a list of possible problems.
- Corruption of a RC file which is being opened
- Incorrect links to the RC file in registry entries.
- Accidental deletion of the description of the RC from the Windows registry
- Incomplete installation of an application that supports the RC format
- The RC file which is being opened is infected with an undesirable malware.
- The computer does not have enough hardware resources to cope with the opening of the RC file.
- Drivers of equipment used by the computer to open a RC file are out of date.
If you are sure that all of these reasons do not exist in your case (or have already been eliminated), the RC file should operate with your programs without any problem. If the problem with the RC file has not been solved, it may be due to the fact that in this case there is also another rare problem with the RC file. In this case, the only you can do is to ask for assistance of a professional staff.
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If you want to associate a file with a new program (e.g. my-file.RC) you have two ways to do it. The first and the easiest one is to right-click on the selected RC file. From the drop-down menu select 'Choose default program', then click 'Browse' and find the desired program. The whole operation must be confirmed by clicking OK. The second and more difficult to do is associate the RC file extension to the corresponding software in the Windows Registry.
Is there one way to open unknown files?Many files contain only simple text data. It is possible that while opening unknown files (e.g. RC) with a simple text editor like Windows Notepad will allow us to see some of the data encoded in the file. This method allows you to preview the contents of many files, but probably not in such a structure as a program dedicated to support them.
RCFile (Record Columnar File) is a data placement structure that determines how to store relational tables on computer clusters. It is designed for systems using the MapReduce framework. The RCFile structure includes a data storage format, data compression approach, and optimization techniques for data reading. It is able to meet all the four requirements of data placement: (1) fast data loading, (2) fast query processing, (3) highly efficient storage space utilization, and (4) a strong adaptivity to dynamic data access patterns.
RCFile is the result of research and collaborative efforts from Facebook, The Ohio State University, and the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Summary[edit]
Data storage format[edit]
For example, a table in a database consists of 4 columns (c1 to c4):
c1 | c2 | c3 | c4 |
---|---|---|---|
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
41 | 42 | 43 | 44 |
51 | 52 | 53 | 54 |
To serialize the table, RCFile partitions this table first horizontally and then vertically, instead of only partitioning the table horizontally like the row-oriented DBMS (row-store). The horizontal partitioning will first partition the table into multiple row groups based on the row-group size, which is a user-specified value determining the size of each row group. For example, the table mentioned above can be partitioned to two row groups if the user specifies three rows as the size of each row group.
c1 | c2 | c3 | c4 |
---|---|---|---|
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
c1 | c2 | c3 | c4 |
---|---|---|---|
41 | 42 | 43 | 44 |
51 | 52 | 53 | 54 |
Then, in every row group, RCFile partitions the data vertically like column-store. Thus, the table will be serialized as:
What Is A Rcp File
Column data compression[edit]
Within each row group, columns are compressed to reduce storage space usage. Since data of a column are stored adjacently, the pattern of a column can be detected and thus the suitable compression algorithm can be selected for a high compression ratio.
Performance Benefits[edit]
Column-store is more efficient when a query only requires a subset of columns, because column-store only read necessary columns from disks but row-store will read an entire row.
RCFile combines merits of row-store and column-store via horizontal-vertical partitioning. With horizontal partitioning, RCFile places all columns of a row in a single machine and thus can eliminate the extra network costs when constructing a row. With vertical partitioning, for a query, RCFile will only read necessary columns from disks and thus can eliminate the unnecessary local I/O costs. Moreover, in every row group, data compression can be done by using compression algorithms used in column-store.
For example, a database might have this table:
EmpId | Lastname | Firstname | Salary |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Smith | Joe | 40000 |
12 | Jones | Mary | 50000 |
11 | Johnson | Cathy | 44000 |
22 | Jones | Bob | 55000 |
This simple table includes an employee identifier (EmpId), name fields (Lastname and Firstname) and a salary (Salary). This two-dimensional format exists only in theory, in practice, storage hardware requires the data to be serialized into one form or another.
In MapReduce-based systems, data is normally stored on a distributed system, such as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and different data blocks might be stored in different machines. Tyranny - tales from the tiers for machine learning. Thus, for column-store on MapReduce, different groups of columns might be stored on different machines, which introduces extra network costs when a query projects columns placed on different machines. For MapReduce-based systems, the merit of row-store is that there is no extra network costs to construct a row in query processing, and the merit of column-store is that there is no unnecessary local I/O costs when read data from disks.
Row-oriented systems[edit]
The common solution to the storage problem is to serialize each row of data, like this;
Row-based systems are designed to efficiently return data for an entire row, or an entire record, in as few operations as possible. This matches use-cases where the system is attempting to retrieve all the information about a particular object, say the full information about one contact in a rolodex system, or the complete information about one product in an online shopping system.
Row-based systems are not efficient at performing operations that apply to the entire data set, as opposed to a specific record. For instance, in order to find all the records in the example table that have salaries between 40,000 and 50,000, the row-based system would have to seek through the entire data set looking for matching records. While the example table shown above may fit in a single disk block, a table with even a few hundred rows would not, therefore multiple disk operations would be needed to retrieve the data.
Column-oriented systems[edit]
A column-oriented system serializes all of the values of a column together, then the values of the next column. For our example table, the data would be stored in this fashion;
The difference can be more clearly seen in this common modification:
Two of the records store the same value, 'Jones', therefore it is now possible to store this in the column-oriented system only once instead of twice. For many common searches, like 'find all the people with the last name Jones', the answer can now be retrieved in a single operation.
Whether or not a column-oriented system will be more efficient in operation depends heavily on the operations being automated. Operations that retrieve data for objects would be slower, requiring numerous disk operations to assemble data from different columns to build up a whole-row record. However, such whole-row operations are generally rare. In the majority of cases, only a limited subset of data is retrieved. In a rolodex application, for instance, operations collecting the first names and last names from many rows in order to build a list of contacts is far more common than operations reading the data for home address.
Adoption[edit]
RCFile has been adopted in real-world systems for big data analytics.
- RCFile became the default data placement structure in Facebook's production Hadoop cluster.[1] By 2010 it was the world's largest Hadoop cluster,[2] where 40 terabytes compressed data sets are added every day.[3] In addition, all the data sets stored in HDFS before RCFile have also been transformed to use RCFile .[1]
- RCFile has been adopted in Apache Hive (since v0.4),[4] which is an open source data store system running on top of Hadoop and is being widely used in various companies around the world,[5] including several Internet services, such as Facebook, Taobao, and Netflix.[6]
- RCFile has been adopted in Apache Pig (since v0.7),[7] which is another open source data processing system being widely used in many organizations,[8] including several major Web service providers, such as Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn, AOL, and Salesforce.com.
- RCFile became the de facto standard data storage structure in Hadoop software environment supported by the Apache HCatalog project (formerly known as Howl[9]) that is the table and storage management service for Hadoop.[10] RCFile is supported by the open source Elephant Bird library used in Twitter for daily data analytics.[11]
Over the following years, other Hadoop data formats also became popular. In February 2013, an Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) file format was announced by Hortonworks.[12]A month later, the Apache Parquet format was announced, developed by Cloudera and Twitter.[13]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
If you want to associate a file with a new program (e.g. my-file.RC) you have two ways to do it. The first and the easiest one is to right-click on the selected RC file. From the drop-down menu select 'Choose default program', then click 'Browse' and find the desired program. The whole operation must be confirmed by clicking OK. The second and more difficult to do is associate the RC file extension to the corresponding software in the Windows Registry.
Is there one way to open unknown files?Many files contain only simple text data. It is possible that while opening unknown files (e.g. RC) with a simple text editor like Windows Notepad will allow us to see some of the data encoded in the file. This method allows you to preview the contents of many files, but probably not in such a structure as a program dedicated to support them.
RCFile (Record Columnar File) is a data placement structure that determines how to store relational tables on computer clusters. It is designed for systems using the MapReduce framework. The RCFile structure includes a data storage format, data compression approach, and optimization techniques for data reading. It is able to meet all the four requirements of data placement: (1) fast data loading, (2) fast query processing, (3) highly efficient storage space utilization, and (4) a strong adaptivity to dynamic data access patterns.
RCFile is the result of research and collaborative efforts from Facebook, The Ohio State University, and the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Summary[edit]
Data storage format[edit]
For example, a table in a database consists of 4 columns (c1 to c4):
c1 | c2 | c3 | c4 |
---|---|---|---|
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
41 | 42 | 43 | 44 |
51 | 52 | 53 | 54 |
To serialize the table, RCFile partitions this table first horizontally and then vertically, instead of only partitioning the table horizontally like the row-oriented DBMS (row-store). The horizontal partitioning will first partition the table into multiple row groups based on the row-group size, which is a user-specified value determining the size of each row group. For example, the table mentioned above can be partitioned to two row groups if the user specifies three rows as the size of each row group.
c1 | c2 | c3 | c4 |
---|---|---|---|
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
c1 | c2 | c3 | c4 |
---|---|---|---|
41 | 42 | 43 | 44 |
51 | 52 | 53 | 54 |
Then, in every row group, RCFile partitions the data vertically like column-store. Thus, the table will be serialized as:
What Is A Rcp File
Column data compression[edit]
Within each row group, columns are compressed to reduce storage space usage. Since data of a column are stored adjacently, the pattern of a column can be detected and thus the suitable compression algorithm can be selected for a high compression ratio.
Performance Benefits[edit]
Column-store is more efficient when a query only requires a subset of columns, because column-store only read necessary columns from disks but row-store will read an entire row.
RCFile combines merits of row-store and column-store via horizontal-vertical partitioning. With horizontal partitioning, RCFile places all columns of a row in a single machine and thus can eliminate the extra network costs when constructing a row. With vertical partitioning, for a query, RCFile will only read necessary columns from disks and thus can eliminate the unnecessary local I/O costs. Moreover, in every row group, data compression can be done by using compression algorithms used in column-store.
For example, a database might have this table:
EmpId | Lastname | Firstname | Salary |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Smith | Joe | 40000 |
12 | Jones | Mary | 50000 |
11 | Johnson | Cathy | 44000 |
22 | Jones | Bob | 55000 |
This simple table includes an employee identifier (EmpId), name fields (Lastname and Firstname) and a salary (Salary). This two-dimensional format exists only in theory, in practice, storage hardware requires the data to be serialized into one form or another.
In MapReduce-based systems, data is normally stored on a distributed system, such as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and different data blocks might be stored in different machines. Tyranny - tales from the tiers for machine learning. Thus, for column-store on MapReduce, different groups of columns might be stored on different machines, which introduces extra network costs when a query projects columns placed on different machines. For MapReduce-based systems, the merit of row-store is that there is no extra network costs to construct a row in query processing, and the merit of column-store is that there is no unnecessary local I/O costs when read data from disks.
Row-oriented systems[edit]
The common solution to the storage problem is to serialize each row of data, like this;
Row-based systems are designed to efficiently return data for an entire row, or an entire record, in as few operations as possible. This matches use-cases where the system is attempting to retrieve all the information about a particular object, say the full information about one contact in a rolodex system, or the complete information about one product in an online shopping system.
Row-based systems are not efficient at performing operations that apply to the entire data set, as opposed to a specific record. For instance, in order to find all the records in the example table that have salaries between 40,000 and 50,000, the row-based system would have to seek through the entire data set looking for matching records. While the example table shown above may fit in a single disk block, a table with even a few hundred rows would not, therefore multiple disk operations would be needed to retrieve the data.
Column-oriented systems[edit]
A column-oriented system serializes all of the values of a column together, then the values of the next column. For our example table, the data would be stored in this fashion;
The difference can be more clearly seen in this common modification:
Two of the records store the same value, 'Jones', therefore it is now possible to store this in the column-oriented system only once instead of twice. For many common searches, like 'find all the people with the last name Jones', the answer can now be retrieved in a single operation.
Whether or not a column-oriented system will be more efficient in operation depends heavily on the operations being automated. Operations that retrieve data for objects would be slower, requiring numerous disk operations to assemble data from different columns to build up a whole-row record. However, such whole-row operations are generally rare. In the majority of cases, only a limited subset of data is retrieved. In a rolodex application, for instance, operations collecting the first names and last names from many rows in order to build a list of contacts is far more common than operations reading the data for home address.
Adoption[edit]
RCFile has been adopted in real-world systems for big data analytics.
- RCFile became the default data placement structure in Facebook's production Hadoop cluster.[1] By 2010 it was the world's largest Hadoop cluster,[2] where 40 terabytes compressed data sets are added every day.[3] In addition, all the data sets stored in HDFS before RCFile have also been transformed to use RCFile .[1]
- RCFile has been adopted in Apache Hive (since v0.4),[4] which is an open source data store system running on top of Hadoop and is being widely used in various companies around the world,[5] including several Internet services, such as Facebook, Taobao, and Netflix.[6]
- RCFile has been adopted in Apache Pig (since v0.7),[7] which is another open source data processing system being widely used in many organizations,[8] including several major Web service providers, such as Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn, AOL, and Salesforce.com.
- RCFile became the de facto standard data storage structure in Hadoop software environment supported by the Apache HCatalog project (formerly known as Howl[9]) that is the table and storage management service for Hadoop.[10] RCFile is supported by the open source Elephant Bird library used in Twitter for daily data analytics.[11]
Over the following years, other Hadoop data formats also became popular. In February 2013, an Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) file format was announced by Hortonworks.[12]A month later, the Apache Parquet format was announced, developed by Cloudera and Twitter.[13]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Open Rcfgx File
- ^ ab'Hive integration: HBase and Rcfile__HadoopSummit2010'. 2010-06-30.
- ^'Facebook has the world's largest Hadoop cluster!'. 2010-05-09.
- ^'Apache Hadoop India Summit 2011 talk 'Hive Evolution' by Namit Jain'. 2011-02-24.
- ^'Class RCFile'. Archived from the original on 2011-11-23. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- ^'PoweredBy - Apache Hive - Apache Software Foundation'.
- ^'Hive user group presentation from Netflix (3/18/2010)'. 2010-03-19.
- ^'HiveRCInputFormat (Pig 0.17.0 API)'.
- ^'PoweredBy - Apache Pig - Apache Software Foundation'.
- ^Howl
- ^'HCatalog'. Archived from the original on 2012-07-20. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- ^'Twitter's collection of LZO and Protocol Buffer-related Hadoop, Pig, Hive, and HBase code.: Kevinweil/elephant-bird'. 2018-12-15.
- ^Alan Gates (February 20, 2013). 'The Stinger Initiative: Making Apache Hive 100 Times Faster'. Hortonworks blog. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
- ^Justin Kestelyn (March 13, 2013). 'Introducing Parquet: Efficient Columnar Storage for Apache Hadoop'. Cloudera blog. Retrieved May 4, 2017.