There has been a lot of excitement around the newly-added support for reading from Parquet files in Power BI. However I have to admit that I was disappointed not to see any big improvements in ...

A fledgling file format that aims to address limitations in the widely-used Parquet is under review for adoption by an open source foundation. Lance is built on the idea that Parquet – widely used in ...

Parquet has been established as a powerful solution to represent columnar data on persistent storage mediums, achieving levels of compression and query performance that enable managing data sets at ...

In all the testing I’ve done recently with importing data from Parquet files into Power BI I noticed something strange: loading data from a folder containing multiple Parquet files seemed a lot slower ...

First used in France in the 17th century, it is made of woodblocks glued to a sub floor to create geometric patterns – available as both solid and engineered boards. The advantage of a solid floor is ...