> Parquet is the opposite of simple. Even when good libraries are available (which it usually isn't), it is painful to read a Parquet file. Try reading a Parque

> Parquet is the opposite of simple. Even when good libraries are available (which it usually isn't), it is painful to read a Parquet file. Try reading a Parquet file using Java and Apache Parquet lib, for example. I skimmed their docs a bit: https://parquet.apache.org/docs/ https://parquet.apache.org/docs/ I would not look forward to implementing that. It all seems rather complex, and even worse: not actually all that well described. I suppose all the information is technically there, but it's really not a well-design well-written specification that's easy to implement. The documentation seems like an afterthought. This is probably why good libraries are rare.