Parquet File

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I'm new to spark. What is a parquet File?
Jun 4, 2018 in Apache Spark by shams
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Parquet is a columnar format file supported by many other data processing systems. Spark SQL performs both read and write operations with Parquet file and consider it be one of the best big data analytics format so far.

answered Jun 4, 2018 by Data_Nerd
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