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

You don't need to have HDFS/Hadoop for consuming Parquet file. There are different ways to consume Parquet.

• You could access it using Apache Spark.
• If you are on AWS, you can directly load or access it from Redshift or Athena
• If you are on Azure, you can load or access it from SQL DataWarehouse or SQL Server
• similarly in GCP as well