Thanks Aihua and Andrew for putting it together! The blog looks really well written and informative.
Thanks, Arnav On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 9:38 PM Vinoo Ganesh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > >
