The Columnar Era: Leveraging Parquet, Arrow and Kudu for High-Performance Analytics 1) Columnar formats like Parquet, Kudu and Arrow provide more efficient data storage and querying by organizing data by column rather than row. 2) Parquet provides an immutable columnar format well-suited for storage, while Kudu allows for mutable updates but is optimized for scans. Arrow provides an in-memory colu