Csv is surprisingly common and I prefer it despite parsing, quoting, encoding and escaping woes. Amazon S3 let's you query csv files already loaded in buckets

Csv is surprisingly common and I prefer it despite parsing, quoting, encoding and escaping woes. Amazon S3 let's you query csv files already loaded in buckets which is interesting but I haven't used yet. One company I worked at a long time ago used free dropbox accounts as a ftp like drop that they would consume. Was hilarious and it worked well and was easy to stay under the free limits.