Parquet

Parquet

Parquet is an open-source columnar file format optimized for efficiently storing and processing large datasets.

It is designed for analytics and data processing workloads, particularly in the context of big data and distributed computing frameworks.

Parquet organizes data into columns rather than rows, allowing for better compression, reduced I/O, and improved query performance.

It is well-suited for complex data structures and nested data, making it a popular choice for storing and analyzing data in data lakes, data warehouses, and big data environments.