Support for the Apache Parquet file format

[Shadi Akiki]

Hello! Is there any work being done to support the Apache Parquet file 
format?

The two data processing tools that I use locally with parquet are:

  * python pandas [1] [2] for programmatic access
  * visidata [3] (CLI that uses pandas under the hood) for more
    "interactive" access

I'm wondering why Parquet is not yet a supported format in LibreOffice 
Calc (and most desktop worksheet processing tools for that matter).

On an unrelated note, I was also surprised to find out that Tableau only 
supports Parquet through a database server like Apache Drill [4][5].

I feel that parquet files are under-rated, and that perhaps pushing for 
native desktop application support would encourage its usage over the 
standard (and less efficient) CSV file format. I may be completely wrong 
and would welcome feedback.

  * [1]
    https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_parquet.html
  * [2]
    https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.to_parquet.html
  * [3] https://visidata.org/formats/
  * [4] https://drill.apache.org/docs/tableau-examples/
  * [5] https://drill.apache.org/docs/parquet-format/

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Shadi Akiki
Founder & CEO, AutofitCloud
https://autofitcloud.com/
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