A set of announcements from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) this week provides an interesting view into the world of Big Data and how it is changing. There's news out of the ASF every week, but ...

Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem.

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