# Read an ORC file

Acquire / file

A variant of [Read a columnar file](https://meridian.online/operations/read-a-columnar-file).

Read ORC files into a table.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/read-a-columnar-file/read-an-orc-file>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#read-a-columnar-file)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Azure Data Factory: [`ORC format (source)`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/format-orc) (read 2026-09-27)
- AWS Glue: [`ORC (read)`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-programming-etl-format-orc-home.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`ORC Input`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tFileInputORC`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/orc/orc-component) (read 2026-09-27)