Page History

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• Binary, date, char, and varchar support are pending (HIVE-6384) 
• Timestamp and decimal are not supported in Hive releases 0.10.0 through 0.13.1, but Hive 0.14.0 adds support for timestamp (HIVE-6394) and decimal (HIVE-6367)
• Column rename support is pending (HIVE-6375)
• Create Table AS SELECT (CTAS) and column rename support are pending is supported starting with release 0.13.0 (HIVE-6375)

Resources

• Parquet Website
• Format specification
• Feature Matrix
• The striping and assembly algorithms from the Dremel paper
• Dremel paper
• Dremel made simple with Parquet