A Beginner’s Guide to Apache Parquet

Apache Parquet is a widely used file format in modern data analytics and data engineering. It is especially common in in data lakes and data lakehouse architectures, where performance, scalability, and efficient storage are critical. This guide explains what Parquet is, where it came from, how it is structured internally, and how to query it effectively.

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