--- title: Apache ORC Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache ORC Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 11 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache ORC works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 11 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # Apache ORC Reviews & Product Details Apache ORC is a self-describing type-aware columnar file format for Hadoop workloads. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache ORC Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-orc/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Google Cloud BigQuery](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud BigQuery") Google Cloud BigQuery 4.5/5(1,224) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) [ ![Snowflake](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Snowflake") Snowflake 4.6/5(764) ](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) [ ![Amazon Redshift](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon Redshift") Amazon Redshift 4.3/5(404) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-orc/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 11 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Bhargava A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bhargava A.") BA Bhargava A. Senior Structural Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/28/2022 "Very usefull tiny tool!" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache ORC? It's an very simple and tiny tool with built in very efficient and powerfull indexing by this we can easily jump to the desired location in any columns and it have bloom filters and it's very usefull, it has maps, hive etc formats which it supports very efficiently and it has columnar storage for Hardoop workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ORC? It's stability needs improvement as it's not that much stable and its user interface is also not that much user friendly .At first even though you are a experienced professional you will get confused while using this tool and after sometime when you got adjusted to this tool means then it will be easy for you to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ORC solving and how is that benefiting you? It has a very good for organizing data as we need to organize our data very frequently and we need to search and analyze our database for our requirement, it has helped us lot in our business by doing statistical analysis and it is like helping Apache . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Naga K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Naga K.") NK Naga K. MLOps Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/31/2022 "most significant and scalable system" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache ORC? incorporation of hadoop ecosystem and parquet file storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ORC? not giving storage mechanism and flexibility to choose among the options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ORC solving and how is that benefiting you? fast data saving which is essential for large stream data accessing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Program Development](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Program Development") UP Verified User in Program Development Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/8/2022 "Fast response from the ORC" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache ORC? Fast Response, Multi-Processing paralelly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ORC? Low performance on huge data which makes it slow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ORC solving and how is that benefiting you? Helps to query the data quickly with parallel processing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-orc/pricing) ## Work at The Apache Software Foundation? Claim this profile to respond to reviews, update product info, and reach in-market buyers. 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