The new version of ABAL, known as Open Abal has been extended by the addition of a PARQUET reader and writer library.This allows a direct connection between Open Abal applications and third party Big Data processing systems and platforms.

The PARQUET Writer section of the library offers the following functions:

  1. Parquet Create File
  2. Parquet Create Column
  3. Parquet Write Row
  4. Parquet Flush

The PARQUET Reader section of the library offers the following functions:

  1. Parquet Open File
  2. Parquet Get Column Count
  3. Parquet Get Row Count
  4. Parquet Read Row
  5. Parquet Close

The PARQUET Writer and Reader functions can handle the following encodings

  • PLAIN
  • DICTIONARY
  • RLE Hybrid

and can handle fragmented files stored across multiple file locations.