May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
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Let's spend some time understanding the Parquet format at a deeper level. The following is some sample data represented in a table format:
| First_Name | Last_Name | Age |
| Barack | Obama | 55 |
| George | Bush | 70 |
| Bill | Clinton | 70 |
In the row format, the data will be stored like this:
| Barack | Obama | 55 | George | Bush | 70 | Bill | Clinton | 70 |
In the columnar layout, the data will be stored like this:
| Barack | George | Bill | Obama | Bush | Clinton | 56 | 70 | 70 |
The following diagram illustrates how the data is laid out in a file:

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