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fastparquet is a python implementation of the parquet format <https://github.com/apache/parquet-format>_, aiming integrate
into python-based big data work-flows. It is used implicitly by
the projects Dask, Pandas and intake-parquet.
We offer a high degree of support for the features of the parquet format, and very competitive performance, in a small install size and codebase.
Details of this project, how to use it and comparisons to other work can be found in the documentation_.
.. _documentation: https://fastparquet.readthedocs.io
(all development is against recent versions in the default anaconda channels and/or conda-forge)
Required:
Supported compression algorithms:
Available by default:
Optionally supported
lzo <https://github.com/jd-boyd/python-lzo>_Install using conda, to get the latest compiled version::
conda install -c conda-forge fastparquet
or install from PyPI::
pip install fastparquet
You may wish to install numpy first, to help pip's resolver. This may install an appropriate wheel, or compile from source. For the latter, you will need a suitable C compiler toolchain on your system.
You can also install latest version from github::
pip install git+https://github.com/dask/fastparquet
in which case you should also have cython to be able to rebuild the C files.
Please refer to the documentation_.
Reading
.. code-block:: python
from fastparquet import ParquetFile
pf = ParquetFile('myfile.parq')
df = pf.to_pandas()
df2 = pf.to_pandas(['col1', 'col2'], categories=['col1'])You may specify which columns to load, which of those to keep as categoricals (if the data uses dictionary encoding). The file-path can be a single file, a metadata file pointing to other data files, or a directory (tree) containing data files. The latter is what is typically output by hive/spark.
Writing
.. code-block:: python
from fastparquet import write
write('outfile.parq', df)
write('outfile2.parq', df, row_group_offsets=[0, 10000, 20000],
compression='GZIP', file_scheme='hive')The default is to produce a single output file with a single row-group (i.e., logical segment) and no compression. At the moment, only simple data-types and plain encoding are supported, so expect performance to be similar to numpy.savez.
This project forked in October 2016 from parquet-python_, which was not designed
for vectorised loading of big data or parallel access.
.. _parquet-python: https://github.com/jcrobak/parquet-python