Tag: data file formats

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• How Databases Organize Data on Disk: Pages, Blocks, and File Formats

  Published:Apr 29, 2026 |  at 12:02 PM

  Databases structure data on disk as heap files, sorted files, or LSM trees, then wrap it in formats like Parquet with metadata that lets engines skip irrelevant blocks.