FYI The Parquet is working on introducing new table format called 'Iceberg' [1] that has interesting and useful features.
Take a look at the initial post. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f90ac1c268dea4077e358df1df8dd48f3766db8d4db476c3e0d9baa8@%3Cdev.parquet.apache.org%3E
