Audit data is exported to compressed Parquet files for efficient long-term archiving, with configurable retention policies and automated lifecycle management.
Scalefield Secure stores all audit data in Apache Parquet — an open, self-describing columnar format that achieves 8-12x compression over raw row-based audit logs. This makes decade-long compliance archives genuinely affordable while keeping every record instantly queryable. Your compliance data is stored in an open standard — readable by DuckDB, Spark, Trino, Athena, or any Parquet-compatible tool, forever.
Parquet's columnar layout and encoding strategies — dictionary, run-length, and delta encoding — typically achieve 8-12x compression over equivalent row-based storage. A terabyte of raw audit logs becomes less than 100 GB, making long-term retention economically viable.
Define retention policies that match your regulatory requirements. GDPR, SOX, HIPAA, and PCI DSS each mandate different retention periods — Scalefield lets you configure per-framework policies with automated lifecycle management that handles expiration and archival.
No vendor lock-in. Your audit archive is stored in an open standard that hundreds of tools can read without any license, runtime, or proprietary reader. When an auditor arrives, they can verify your data with their own tools — complete independence from Scalefield.
Storage backends are pluggable: local filesystem for proof-of-concept deployments, self-hosted Ceph for on-premise petabyte-scale archiving, or any S3-compatible object store (AWS S3, MinIO, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage) for cloud deployments. Lifecycle policies automate tiering between hot and cold storage.
Parquet files are partitioned by time and database source for efficient querying. Query your compliance archive directly with DuckDB, Spark, Trino, Athena, or any tool that reads Parquet — no export step, no data transformation, no waiting.
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