# Data Storage, Loading, and Backup

* Performance improvements for bulk inserts, large insert/selects, `LOAD DATA`, and pipelines to columnstore tables (particularly for wide columnstore tables).
* Added support for publishing data to Kafka via **SELECT … INTO KAFKA …**.
* Added support for Parquet in `CREATE PIPELINE`.
* Improved **error reporting** for pipelines and `LOAD DATA`.
* **Incremental backup** for columnstore data.

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Modified at: April 24, 2021

Source: [/db/v9.1/release-notes/singlestore-memsql/7-0-release-notes/data-storage-loading-and-backup/](https://docs.singlestore.com/db/v9.1/release-notes/singlestore-memsql/7-0-release-notes/data-storage-loading-and-backup/)

(An index of the documentation is available at /llms.txt)