Yes that would be another way to do it. The Parquet-cpp/parquet-arrow integration/arrow cpp efforts are closely related. Julien
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Jim Pivarski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Related question: could I get ROOT's complex events into Parquet files > without inventing a Logical Type Definition by converting them to Apache > Arrow data structures in memory, and then letting the Arrow-Parquet > integration write those data structures to files? > > Arrow could provide side-benefits, such as sharing data between ROOT's C++ > framework and JVM-based applications without intermediate files through the > JNI. (Two birds with one stone.) > > -- Jim
