Parquet.Net

E-commerce company BuyFashion.com , an up and coming online fashion retailer, have experienced enormous sustained growth over the past five years. They have recently decided to build a team of Data S

https://github.com/elastacloud/parquet-dotnet is about to be released in the following few days. Since v3.0 was pushed to the public, it saw a lot of interest and appraisal for it's incredible perfor

Some pretty good news on the speed front - indicative of our gut feeling that parquet-dotnet is a fast implementation of Parquet for the dotnet framework due to our approach. It's worth noting that we

This is a big release, including a lot of speed and stability improvements: https://github.com/elastacloud/parquet-dotnet/releases/tag/1.4.0 new features: - data representation internally changed to c

Spark abstracts the idea of a schema from us by enabling us to read a directory of files which can be similar or identical in schema. A key characteristic is that a superset schema is needed on many o

After several years of watching the Data Science ecosystem develop we decided to contribute back and try and influence it towards the myriad of capability that exists in .NET and Azure. The first pass

The Azure data platform is awash with ways of querying data. From relational, nosql and unstructured data you generally want to minimise the movement of data at the point of querying. At Elastacloud w

Latest @ApacheParquet for .NET introduces support for appending data to existing files and reading into CSV with type inferring. This is great news for big data scenarios because now you can generate

As part of our efforts to drive down the barriers to working with Parquet in the .net and Microsoft ecosystem, the Parq commandline is our first go-to tool for quickly inspecting the contents and stru

Things are moving rapidly forwards with a new PR merged in today that brings in a full SNAPPY support into parquet-dotnet. This pull request came from our newest collaborator, Sandy May - it's fantas

We've been working hard on Parquet.NET to give developers high level abstractions over Parquet so that there is an easy entrypoint into developing with Parquet that is not onerous for developers new

Did you know that it's possible to extract data from Parquet files in Azure Data Lake Analytics ? Well it is and the library just received a couple of updates, check it out over on its Github page.

In order to reach a wider audience and engage more developers to use Parquet even in their spare time we're happy to announce that Apache Parquet Viewer works on Xbox One! This is possible because the

Traditionally viewing .parquet files requires some sort of online service, being it Apache Spark, Impala, Amazon AWS etc. However, when working in your local development environment it's really hard t