Row-Group Control, Faster S3 Reads, Footer Caching: Hardwood 1.1.0.Beta2 Is Out

Table of Contents Writer Improvements Performance Improvements Footer Caching and Reuse Id-Based Access to Dictionary-Encoded Columns Also in This Release I’m happy to announce the release of Hardwood 1.1.0.Beta2! The latest version of the Hardwood open-source library for reading and writing Apache Parquet files brings new features for the writer, significantly improves performance for many different workloads, provides a new API for caching and reusing Parquet file footers, id-based dictionary access, and much more. You can retrieve Hardwood from Maven Central; for the platform-specific CLI binaries check out our GitHub Releases page.