Parquet (http://parquet.io/) is a columnar storage format for Hadoop.
Summary of Hive Parquet support
Hive 0.10, 0.11, and 0.12
To use Parquet with Hive 0.10-0.12 you must download the Parquet Hive package from the Parquet project. You want the parquet-hive-bundle jar in Maven Central.
Hive 0.13
Native Parquet support is pending for 0.13 via HIVE-5783.
Introduction to Parquet
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File Format
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Hive QL Syntax
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