Martin Radev created ARROW-5913: ----------------------------------- Summary: Add support for Parquet's BYTE_STREAM_SPLIT encoding Key: ARROW-5913 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5913 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Wish Components: C++ Reporter: Martin Radev
*From the Parquet issue ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1622 ):* Apache Parquet does not have any encodings suitable for FP data and the available text compressors (zstd, gzip, etc) do not handle FP data very well. It is possible to apply a simple data transformation named "stream splitting". Such could be "byte stream splitting" which creates K streams of length N where K is the number of bytes in the data type (4 for floats, 8 for doubles) and N is the number of elements in the sequence. The transformed data compresses significantly better on average than the original data and for some cases there is a performance improvement in compression and decompression speed. You can read a more detailed report here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wfLQyO2G5nofYFkS7pVbUW0-oJkQqBvv/view ] *Apache Arrow can benefit from the reduced requirements for storing FP parquet column data and improvements in decompression speed.* -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.14#76016)