Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Summary

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more efficient alternative to the Apache Parquet Java implementation. For now, the library supports just reading; writing support is expected in the upcoming versions. By Olimpiu Pop

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