Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started to improve the handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, optimal alternative to the Apache Parquet Java implementation. For now, the library provides a reading via API and a CLI for visualisation; writing support is expected in the upcoming versions.

By Olimpiu Pop