Parquet Page Indexes and the Last Mile of Pruning in Apache Iceberg
September 21, 2026Parquet page indexes can cut selective Iceberg scans by an order of magnitude on sorted data. How they work, what they cost, and how to lay out tables.
5 posts tagged with "Apache Parquet"
CVE-2026-73334 and the Trust Boundary Inside an Encrypted Parquet File
September 21, 2026CVE-2026-73334 lets a tampered Parquet footer route a reader's KMS token to an attacker. Here's the fix, Iceberg's safe path, and how to audit your lakehouse.
FSST and ALP: The Two Encodings Fixing Parquet's Weakest Compression Cases
August 25, 2026ALP and FSST target Parquet's worst cases: floats and high-cardinality strings. How they work and what they change for Iceberg tables.
The Breakdown of the Open Lakehouse in 2026: Iceberg, Arrow, Polaris, Parquet, and Ossie, and How to Actually Build One
July 24, 2026A detailed breakdown of the five Apache projects powering the open lakehouse in 2026 -- Parquet, Iceberg, Polaris, Arrow, and Ossie -- and how to build one yourself or use a managed platform.
The State of Apache Parquet in 2026: The Quiet Format Enters Its Loudest Decade
July 06, 2026Apache Parquet in 2026 — variant types, geospatial, ALP encoding, footer redesign, the versioning debate, and how the decade-old format is renovating for AI workloads.