Parquet file

Apache Parquet is a columnar file format that provides optimizations to speed up queries. It is a far more efficient file format than CSV or JSON.

For more information, see Parquet Files.

Options

See the following Apache Spark reference articles for supported read and write options.

• Read

  • Python

  • Scala

• Write

  • Python

  • Scala

The following notebook shows how to read and write data to Parquet files.

Reading Parquet files notebook

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