Understanding how Parquet integrates with Avro, Thrift and Protocol Buffers Parquet is a new columnar storage format that come out of a collaboration between Twitter and Cloudera. Parquet’s generating a lot of excitement in the community for good reason - it’s shaping up to be the next big thing for data storage in Hadoop for a number of reasons: It’s a sophisticated columnar file format, which me
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