Hi Chris, There is an open PR to support this through C++'s Dataset functionality [1]. There was also a prior attempt that went stale and I can't find at the moment.
IIUC the main missing component at this point before the PR gets merged is integration to honor "-XX:MaxDirectMemorySize" settings. -Micah [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7030 [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7030 On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 6:48 AM Chris Nuernberger <ch...@techascent.com> wrote: > Hey, > > We were wondering what the best way to convert a parquet file to an arrow > file would be via a java pathway. I notice that the c++ layer appears to > have this conversion. > > The best hint I have see so far is this gist: > https://gist.github.com/animeshtrivedi/76de64f9dab1453958e1d4f8eca1605f > > I also found this jni pathway for ORC files: > https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/cpp/src/jni > > Another thought I had was to use the JNA or JNR and bind to the C glib > pathway. > > Thanks for any help, > > Chris >