A Fast Path for Fixed-Length Lists in Parquet

&#xA; Table of Contents &#xA; &#xA; Parquet’s Dremel Encoding &#xA; Reading Effectively-Fixed-Length Lists Faster &#xA; Performance Gains &#xA; Summary &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; In its current form Apache Parquet isn’t a great fit for storing fixed-length lists, such as coordinates, RGB(A) colors, or—​an increasingly common case—​vector embeddings driving search and retrieval workloads.&#xA;A…