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Parquet

A column-oriented file format optimized for storing and querying large datasets. It is widely used in big data and analytics systems.

First released 2013
Developed by Apache Software Foundation
Open-source Yes

Interesting facts

Parquet reduces storage size and improves query performance for analytics workloads.

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