Apache Parquet in Data Warehousing
Parquet files are becoming the de facto standard for columnar data storage in big data ecosystems. This file format is widely used by both sophisticated in-memory data processing frameworks like Apache Spark and more conventional distributed data processing frameworks like Hadoop due to its high-performance compression and effective data storage and retrieval.
Major companies like Netflix, Uber, LinkedIn, and Airbnb rely on Parquet as their data storage file format for large-scale data processing.
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