The variant blog post is now live: https://parquet.apache.org/blog/2026/02/27/variant-type-in-apache-parquet-for-semi-structured-data/
Thanks again to Aihua for making this happen On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 2:33 PM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Folks, > > Aihua and I have been working on the Variant blog[1] and I (biasedly) > think it is looking quite good and I am hoping to publish it sometime this > week. We would love any feedback you may have. > > Thanks! > Andrew > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/pull/171 > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 12:23 AM Aihua Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi community, >> >> I just drafted a variant blog >> < >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABr3p-xj_8rHQ2kdzzDSceejGkU0nWnriZGPjhDoDBc/ >> >. >> When you have time, can you help review? >> >> Thanks, >> Aihua >> >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 4:33 AM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > The idea of blog posts came up the other day too, so I filed some >> tickets >> > to hopefully track and organize the effort and help collaboration >> > >> > I think there are at least three proposed blogs in this thread, so I >> filed >> > three tickets: >> > >> > - Variant[1] >> > - Geospatial[2] >> > - Complex Types[3] >> > >> > Looking forward to seeing these get posted. Let me know how I can help >> > (e.g. figuring out how to actually post them on the site, for example). >> > >> > Andrew >> > >> > [1]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/147 >> > [2]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/148 >> > [3]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/149 >> > >> > On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM Aihua Xu <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > Agree. We started to write a little bit for variant and I can take >> > variant >> > > blog. >> > > > >> > > > On Oct 2, 2025, at 5:07 PM, Julien Le Dem <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > > >> > > > I was thinking that we should talk more about the new features in >> > > Parquet. >> > > > Specifically, write blog posts about Variant or Geo types. >> > > > How they came to be, what they enable, how they are integrated in >> the >> > > > ecosystem. >> > > > The Parquet blog is only the release announcements for now ( >> > > > https://parquet.apache.org/blog/) and we can make it an >> opportunity to >> > > > spotlight some of the recent additions to the project. >> > > > Contributors welcome. >> > > > Some sources of inspiration: >> > > > https://arrow.apache.org/blog/ >> > > > https://openlineage.io/blog >> > > > https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/ >> > > > What do you think? >> > > >> > >> >
