Parquet-mr is the java implementation of the Parquet format to be used in Hadoop. It uses the record shredding and assembly algorithm described in the Dremel paper. Integration with Pig and Map/Reduce are provided.

A Loader and a Storer are provided to read and write Parquet files with Apache Pig

Thrift mapping to the parquet schema is provided using a TBase extending class. You can read and write parquet files using Thrift generated classes.

• The ParquetOutputFormat can be provided a WriteSupport to write your own objects to an event based RecordConsumer.
• the ParquetInputFormat can be provided a ReadSupport to materialize your own POJOs by implementing a RecordMaterializer

See the APIs:

• Record convertion API
• Hadoop API

to run the unit tests: mvn test

to build the jars: mvn package

The build runs in Travis CI:

• Julien Le Dem http://twitter.com/J_
• Jonathan Coveney http://twitter.com/jco

• google group https://groups.google.com/d/forum/parquet-dev
• the group email address: parquet-dev@googlegroups.com

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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0