Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem.

Apache Arrow defines an in-memory columnar data format that accelerates processing on modern CPU and GPU hardware, and enables lightning-fast data access between systems. Working with big data can be ...

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There are significant performance optimizations available for systems that consume and process primarily analytical data, but seldom are software applications written in a way that can take advantage ...