Agreed. The abstractions on top of parquet are quite immature yet, though, and lots of software assumes that if you use Parquet - you also use Hive, Spark and s

Agreed. The abstractions on top of parquet are quite immature yet, though, and lots of software assumes that if you use Parquet - you also use Hive, Spark and stuff. Take Apache Iceberg for example. It is essentially a specification to how to store parquet files for efficient use and exploration of data, but the only implementation... depends on Apache Spark!