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new dac5a35 Finalize Variant and shredding specs (#509)
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commit dac5a35040ab57000b84246746c5c9cb25267261
Author: Aihua Xu <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Aug 24 19:03:18 2025 -0700
Finalize Variant and shredding specs (#509)
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# Variant Binary Encoding
-> [!IMPORTANT]
-> **This specification is still under active development, and has not been
formally adopted.**
-
A Variant represents a type that contains one of:
- Primitive: A type and corresponding value (e.g. INT, STRING)
- Array: An ordered list of Variant values
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# Variant Shredding
-> [!IMPORTANT]
-> **This specification is still under active development, and has not been
formally adopted.**
-
The Variant type is designed to store and process semi-structured data
efficiently, even with heterogeneous values.
Query engines encode each Variant value in a self-describing format, and store
it as a group containing `value` and `metadata` binary fields in Parquet.
Since data is often partially homogeneous, it can be beneficial to extract
certain fields into separate Parquet columns to further improve performance.
