Comment Comment by sa46 Parquet also encodes the physical layout using footers [1], as does ORC [2]. Perhaps the author meant support for semi-structured data, like the spans you mention.[1]: https://parquet.apache.org/docs/file-format/[2]: https://orc.apache.org/specification/ORCv2/#file-tail parent sa46 2 years ago
[1]: https://parquet.apache.org/docs/file-format/
[2]: https://orc.apache.org/specification/ORCv2/#file-tail