Tag: Parquet

All the articles with the tag "Parquet".

• 27 MIN READ•Jul 6, 2026

  A Deep Dive Into File Compression: How Data Gets Smaller, Why Codecs Differ, and What to Actually Use in the Lakehouse

  *By Alex Merced, Head of Developer Relations at Dremio* Somewhere in your data platform right now, a single configuration property is quietly deciding a.

  compressionZstandardParquet
• 27 MIN READ•Jul 6, 2026

  The File Format Renaissance: Parquet, Lance, Vortex, Nimble, BtrBlocks, and the New Physics of Columnar Storage

  *By Alex Merced, Head of Developer Relations at Dremio* For a decade, the file format layer was the most settled real estate in data.

  file formatsParquetLance
• 27 MIN READ•Jul 6, 2026

  File Encryption for the Lakehouse: The Terminology, the Machinery, and the Hard Problem of Interoperable Encrypted Tables

  *By Alex Merced, Head of Developer Relations at Dremio* For years, the open lakehouse had an honest gap that practitioners whispered about and slide dec.

  encryptionParquetIceberg