> >> The reason I'm asking about the columnar compressed format is that >> there are some problems for which Parquet is not practical. > > > Can you elaborate?
Sure. - Organization or co has no Hadoop, but significant investment in some other NoSQL store. - Need to efficiently add a new column to existing data - Need to mark some existing rows as deleted or replace small bits of existing data For these use cases, it would be much more efficient and practical if we didn't have to take the origin of the data from the datastore, convert it to Parquet first. Doing so loses significant latency and causes Ops headaches in having to maintain HDFS. It would be great to be able to load data directly into the columnar format, into the InMemoryColumnarCache. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org