Parquet without Hadoop?

Question

I want to use parquet in one of my projects as columnar storage. But i dont want to depends on hadoop/hdfs libs. Is it possible to use parquet outside of hdfs? Or What is th

Answer 1

Late to the party, but I've been working on something that should make this possible: https://github.com/jmd1011/parquet-readers.

This is still under development, but a final implementation should be out within a month or two of writing this.

Edit: Months later, and still working on this! It is under active development, just taking longer than expected.