VARIANT Support, Interactive Parquet File TUI: Hardwood 1.0.0.Beta2 Is Out

&#xA; Table of Contents &#xA; &#xA; VARIANT Support &#xA; Hardwood CLI TUI &#xA; Unified Reader API &#xA; Performance Improvements &#xA; Wrapping Up &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; I am happy to announce the release of Hardwood 1.0.0.Beta2! &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; The latest version of this new parser for Apache Parquet comes with support for VARIANT columns,&#xA;an interactive text-based UI (TUI) for examining…