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[jira] [Created] (PARQUET-460) Parquet files concat tool

flykobe cheng created PARQUET-460:
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             Summary: Parquet files concat tool
                 Key: PARQUET-460
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-460
             Project: Parquet
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: parquet-mr
    Affects Versions: 1.8.0, 1.7.0
            Reporter: flykobe cheng


Currently the parquet file generation is time consuming, most of time used for serialize and compress. It cost about 10mins to generate a 100MB~ parquet file in our scenario. We want to improve write performance without generate too many small files, which will impact read performance.

We propose to:
1. generate several small parquet files concurrently
2. merge small files to one file: concat the parquet blocks in binary (without SerDe), merge footers and modify the path and offset metadata.
We create ParquetFilesConcat class to finish step 2. It can be invoked by parquet.tools.command.ConcatCommand. If this function approved by parquet community, we will integrate it in spark.

It will impact compression and introduced more dictionary pages, but it can be improved by adjusting the concurrency of step 1.




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