Agreed.<p>Hope you don&#x27;t mind a plug here for ADAM, a genomics analysis platform with specialized file formats built using Apache Avro, Apache Spark and Parquet.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bigdatagenomics&#x2F;adam" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bigdatagenomics&#x2F;adam</a>