What is the Parquet File Format? Use Cases & Benefits
Apache Parquet has become the de-facto standard for storing data used in analytics workloads, and has seen very broad adoption as a free and open-source storage format. When used as the underlying storage layer for Apache Iceberg, Parquet is also a foundational building block in modern lakehouse architectures, which enable warehouse-like capabilities on cost effective object storage. Let’s take a closer look at what Parquet actually is, and why it matters for big data storage and analytics.