# Options tab

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In the **Options** tab, you can define properties for the file output.

| Option                        | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
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| **Compression**               | <p>Specify the codec to use to compress the Parquet Output file:</p><ul><li><strong>None</strong></li></ul><p>No compression is used (default).</p><ul><li><strong>Snappy</strong></li></ul><p>Using Google's <a href="http://google.github.io/snappy/">Snappy</a> compression library, writes the data blocks that are followed by the 4-byte, big-endian CRC32 checksum of the uncompressed data in each block.</p><ul><li><strong>GZIP</strong></li></ul><p>Uses a compression format that is based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE">Deflate</a> algorithm.</p> |
| **Version**                   | <p>Specify the version of Parquet you want to use:</p><ul><li><strong>Parquet 1.0</strong></li><li><strong>Parquet 2.0</strong></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| **Row group size (MB)**       | Specify the group size for the rows. The default value is 0.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| **Data page size (KB)**       | Specify the page size for the data. The default value is 0.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| **Dictionary encoding**       | Specifies the dictionary encoding, which builds a dictionary of values encountered in a column. The dictionary page is written first, before the data pages of the column. Note that if the dictionary grows larger than the **Page size**, whether in size or number of distinct values, then the encoding method will revert to the plain encoding type.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| **Page size (KB)**            | Specify the page size when using dictionary encoding. The default value is 1024.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| **Extension**                 | Select the extension for your output file. The default value is parquet.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| **Include date in file name** | Adds the system date to the filename with format `yyyyMMdd` (`20181231` for example).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| **Include time in file name** | Adds the system time to the filename with format `HHmmss` (`235959` for example).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| **Specify date time format**  | Specify the date time format using the dropdown list.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |