What is TSV?

CSV with tabs instead of commas, and the better choice more often than people realise. Tabs almost never appear inside a field, so the quoting rules that make CSV parsing miserable largely evaporate. Anything with prose, addresses or European decimals in it is safer as TSV.

What is CSV?

The least glamorous and most durable data format there is: rows of values separated by commas, readable by every spreadsheet and database ever written. All its subtlety is in quoting - a value with a comma in it has to be wrapped in quotes, and a quote inside that has to be doubled.