Certainly, if used as a data store for a data-lake-like solution, it's much more convenient to store data in uncompressed form, knowing that the underlying stor

Certainly, if used as a data store for a data-lake-like solution, it's much more convenient to store data in uncompressed form, knowing that the underlying storage solution will take care of that for you. This way, you can just dump Json files in without it feeling like a collosal waste (or having to do extra work of converting them to a compressed format, such as Avro).