Editor’s Note: While Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet are separate projects, the Arrow arrow-rs repository hosts the development of the parquet Rust crate, a widely used and high-performance Parquet implementation. Summary Version 57.0.0 of the parquet Rust crate decodes metadata more than three times faster than previous versions thanks to a new custom Apache Thrift parser. The new parser is both faster in all cases and enables further performance improvements not possible with generated pa...
