There are other formats though that it can be compared to.
The Lance columnar format is one: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
And Nimble from Meta is another: https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble
Parquet is so core to data infra and widespread, that removing it from its throne is a really really hard task.
The people behind these projects that are willing to try and do this, have my total respect.
There are other formats though that it can be compared to.
The Lance columnar format is one: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
And Nimble from Meta is another: https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble
Parquet is so core to data infra and widespread, that removing it from its throne is a really really hard task.
The people behind these projects that are willing to try and do this, have my total respect.