Use PowerExchange for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage to read data from or write data to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage. Use PowerExchange for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage to read delimited files and the industry-standard file formats, Avro and Parquet. You can read and write Avro and Parquet files in the native environment.

You can read and write the gzip compressed

.csv

files only in the native environment. Create a Microsoft Azure Blob Storage connection to read or write Microsoft Azure Blob Storage data into a Microsoft Azure Blob Storage data object. When you use Microsoft Azure Blob Storage objects in mappings, you must configure properties specific to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage. You can validate and run mappings in the native environment or in the Hadoop environment.