This looks great! Great work, team! Thanks, Vinoo Ganesh | [email protected]
<[email protected]> On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 9:23 AM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >
