[PARQUET-2470] Update the website to describe the larger role of Parquet

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: parquet-site
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Andrew Lamb
• Reporter: Andrew Lamb
• Created: 11/May/24 11:32
• Updated: 23/Jun/24 03:33
• Resolved: 19/May/24 10:18

Description

I personally believe Parquet will be at the center of the analytics ecosystem

https://parquet.apache.org/ currently emphasis Parquet's role in the Hadoop ecosystem. I think this causes confusion in several ways:

1. It implies that parquet is only focused on Hadoop, whem I think it is a critical technology across other ecosystems that are unrelated to hadoop (e.g. Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, etc)
2. It may further the perception that the Apache Parquet project only focuses on / cares about Hadoop / Java impleemntation

 

I would like to update the site to focus less on the hadoop aspects and more on the broader nature of Parquet

 

If people like where this is headed, I would like to next expand the documentation to explain better how the various implementations are related (e.g. how parquet-mr relates to the readers in arrow-rs, arrow, etc)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #59