Initial Collaboration Begins

Engineers from Twitter (Julien Le Dem) and Cloudera (Todd Lipcon) begin discussing and collaborating on a new columnar storage format for Hadoop, drawing inspiration from Google Dremel.

Significance

This marked the genesis of Apache Parquet, bringing together leading minds to address a critical Big Data challenge.

Key facts

Year
2012
Type
invention
Location
Virtually between Twitter (San Francisco) and Cloudera (Palo Alto)