Viju,
JSon data are not *typed* - Parquet requires types - and Avro is a perfect
packaging as it provides the typing in the parquet format
So you will need to convert your messages into Avro ( and that's a best
practice in *Kafka* by the way ).
The reason you need to do that is that for example
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Niels Basjes commented on PARQUET-725:
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Note that AVRO 1.8.2 (as it stands currently
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Niels Basjes commented on PARQUET-725:
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After AVRO 1.8.2. has been released this pro