---
title: "Chapter I: The birth of Parquet"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/chapter-i-the-birth-of-parquet-jz1c8fye7
source_url: https://sympathetic.ink/2024/01/24/Chapter-1-The-birth-of-Parquet.html
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-05-08T15:40:42.643Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:22:04.995Z
tags: ["open-source", "data-processing"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Chapter I: The birth of Parquet

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

This post discusses the birth of Parquet, a columnar storage format for Hadoop, and its integration into the open source data stack. It covers the main tools used in the data platform at Twitter, the benefits of organizing data in a columnar layout, and the importance of project governance and open source foundations.

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