Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem.

Will Apache Parquet be the "next big thing" in the Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem? It was only 14 months ago that the Apache Spark project was graduated to a top-level project by Hadoop steward Apache ...

If big data systems rely on the Apache Parquet open source file format for data processing, attacks may be imminent. A malicious code vulnerability affects Apache Parquet. The column-based open source ...

A set of announcements from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) this week provides an interesting view into the world of Big Data and how it is changing. There's news out of the ASF every week, but ...