Greetings all - We really want to look into the Parquet file format more, however, without supporting all the Hive Column types, we are hesitant to dive in more.
Currently, it looks like it's just the BINARY column type (which I use) based on the JIRA below, there hasn't been any movement in on that in a few months, I guess I am curious on the thoughts of the group on what issues is keeping Parquet from supporting BINARY, and when sort of timeline we may have for PARQUET to fully support all Hive column types. Thanks! John https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6384
