Data Formats for Row-Oriented Processing
Photo by Christopher Gower on UnsplashThe combination of pandas and parquet is the backbone of many data pipelines. However, it can, at times, be a badly performing solution. I would like to show one such case here.IntroductionPandas and parquet are both primarily column-oriented/analytical tools. They shine the most when your pipeline is,
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