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Variant Type in Apache Parquet for Semi-Structured Data
Friday, February 27, 2026 in features
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The Apache Parquet community is excited to announce the addition of the Variant type—a feature that brings native support for semi-structured data to Parquet, significantly improving efficiency compared to less efficient formats such as JSON. This …
Native Geospatial Types in Apache Parquet
Friday, February 13, 2026 in features
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Geospatial data has become a core input for modern analytics across logistics, climate science, urban planning, mobility, and location intelligence. Yet for a long time, spatial data lived outside the mainstream analytics ecosystem. In primarily …