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Add Parquet data format as input & output

Please add Parquet data format (https://parquet.apache.org/) as read-write option for Alteryx.

 

Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format available to any project in the Hadoop ecosystem, regardless of the choice of data processing framework, data model or programming language.

 

Thank you.

 

Regards,

Cristian.

19 Comments
DurgaS
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

@RM1

 

I posted version2 of the solution in the KB.

 

It uses the Post Create SQL Statement to alter the table to parquet format  "ALTER TABLE table_name SET FILEFORMAT PARQUET;"

 

Try that.

DurgaS
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)
ks3lam
5 - Atom

I tried to access the information DurgaS shared above, but failed.  

 

Will product team review this and see if we can make this part of Alteryx Roadmap?  Cheers!

rrikkala
5 - Atom

Please add Alteryx ability to read .parquet files from apache spark. 

simonaubert_bd
13 - Pulsar

Hello,

Just to say that Qlik Sense is now able to read and write parquet file while Alteryx is still unable to do it.

Frankly, that's a shame since parquet has became a standard widely used these last years.

harsh_alang
Alteryx
Alteryx
Status changed to: Accepted

We are looking into adding support for Parquet in 24.1

simonaubert_bd
13 - Pulsar

Hello @harsh_alang great news, thanks

SeanAdams
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

That is an important and valuable addition!

vcarey
7 - Meteor

 

This feature would be very much appreciated.

 

Using the Python tool for export is at this point unwieldy as you have to have the file loaded in Alteryx then load again in the Python tool, which is very memory intensive