Learn parquet file format

Learning goals

• parquet File as a storage structure for listing
• parquet The main process of reading and writing files and the calling interface
• spark Yes parquet Optimization of file reading and writing
• spark How to read vectorized data

Parquet File storage structure

For example, a practical parquet file meta Information

parquet-tools meta --debug part-00000-95a6898f-c2aa-4e89-86a6-4f17a2a8fe26.c000.snappy.parquet

creator:               parquet-mr version 1.10.1 (build a89df8f9932b6ef6633d06069e50c9b7970bebd1)
extra:                 org.apache.spark.version = 3.0.0
extra:                 org.apache.spark.sql.parquet.row.metadata = {"type":"struct","fields":[{"name":"biz_id","type":"string","nullable":true,"metadata":{"comment":" marketing / Unified Q & a business  trace id"}},{"name":"scene_id","type":"integer","nullable":true,"metadata":{"comment":" scene "}},{"name":"store_id","type":"string","n [more]...

file schema:           spark_schema
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biz_id:                OPTIONAL BINARY O:UTF8 R:0 D:1
scene_id:              OPTIONAL INT32 R:0 D:1
store_id:              OPTIONAL BINARY O:UTF8 R:0 D:1
store_name:            OPTIONAL BINARY O:UTF8 R:0 D:1
buyer_nick:            OPTIONAL BINARY O:UTF8 R:0 D:1
trigger_time_in_ms:    OPTIONAL INT64 R:0 D:1
dispatch_time_in_ms:   OPTIONAL INT64 R:0 D:1
arrived_time_in_ms:    OPTIONAL INT64 R:0 D:1
assistant_nick:        OPTIONAL BINARY O:UTF8 R:0 D:1
trade_id:              OPTIONAL BINARY O:UTF8 R:0 D:1
paid_time_in_ms:       OPTIONAL INT64 R:0 D:1
order_fee:             OPTIONAL INT64 O:DECIMAL R:0 D:1
order_number:          OPTIONAL INT32 R:0 D:1
indirect_order_fee:    OPTIONAL INT64 O:DECIMAL R:0 D:1
indirect_order_number: OPTIONAL INT32 R:0 D:1
is_arrived:            REQUIRED BOOLEAN R:0 D:0
result:                REQUIRED BINARY O:UTF8 R:0 D:0
sentence:              OPTIONAL F:1
.list:                 REPEATED F:1
..element:             REQUIRED BINARY O:UTF8 R:1 D:2
task:                  REQUIRED F:5
.task_id:              OPTIONAL INT64 R:0 D:1
.round_id:             OPTIONAL INT64 R:0 D:1
.round:                OPTIONAL INT32 R:0 D:1
.entry_name:           OPTIONAL BINARY O:UTF8 R:0 D:1
.strategy:             OPTIONAL BINARY O:UTF8 R:0 D:1

row group 1:           RC:350242 TS:114447905 //  There is only one test file RowGroup, Many words , Will cycle 
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biz_id:                 BINARY SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:4 SZ:12781311/14711901/1.15 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,RLE,PLAIN
scene_id:               INT32 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:12781315 SZ:141/135/0.96 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
store_id:               BINARY SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:12781456 SZ:625362/651136/1.04 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
store_name:             BINARY SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:13406818 SZ:661669/720686/1.09 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
buyer_nick:             BINARY SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:14068487 SZ:4926923/6019612/1.22 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,RLE,PLAIN
trigger_time_in_ms:     INT64 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:18995410 SZ:1141626/1301269/1.14 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
dispatch_time_in_ms:    INT64 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:20137036 SZ:2021695/2802163/1.39 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,RLE,PLAIN
arrived_time_in_ms:     INT64 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:22158731 SZ:1866923/2578762/1.38 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,RLE,PLAIN
assistant_nick:         BINARY SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:24025654 SZ:944211/1151429/1.22 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
trade_id:               BINARY SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:24969865 SZ:5252882/8012876/1.53 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,RLE,PLAIN
paid_time_in_ms:        INT64 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:30222747 SZ:469431/566161/1.21 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
order_fee:              INT64 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:30692178 SZ:194907/233987/1.20 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
order_number:           INT32 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:30887085 SZ:70615/87743/1.24 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
indirect_order_fee:     INT64 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:30957700 SZ:241548/282655/1.17 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
indirect_order_number:  INT32 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:31199248 SZ:79962/98381/1.23 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
is_arrived:             BOOLEAN SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:31279210 SZ:5913/43819/7.41 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN
result:                 BINARY SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:31285123 SZ:86680/88435/1.02 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY
sentence:
.list:
..element:              BINARY SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:31371803 SZ:32418858/73409092/2.26 VC:377833 ENC:RLE,PLAIN
task:
.task_id:               INT64 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:63790661 SZ:666110/714412/1.07 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
.round_id:              INT64 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:64456771 SZ:664298/711780/1.07 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
.round:                 INT32 SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:65121069 SZ:129151/131726/1.02 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
.entry_name:            BINARY SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:65250220 SZ:43694/64940/1.49 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE
.strategy:              BINARY SNAPPY DO:0 FPO:65293914 SZ:43637/64805/1.49 VC:350242 ENC:BIT_PACKED,PLAIN_DICTIONARY,RLE

Description of the reduced field :

• RC = Record Count, TS = Total Byte Size
• DO = DictionaryPageOffset
• FPO = FirstDataPageOffset
• SZ : The first value of the field = TotalSize, Second value = TotalUncompressedSize, Third values ratio = TotalUncompressedSize / TotalSize
• VC = ValueCount
• ENC = Encodings