Query Engines: Gatekeepers of the Parquet File Format
(duckdb.org)
TL;DR: Mainstream query engines do not support reading newer Parquet encodings, forcing systems like DuckDB to default to writing older encodings, thereby sacrificing compression.
TL;DR: Mainstream query engines do not support reading newer Parquet encodings, forcing systems like DuckDB to default to writing older encodings, thereby sacrificing compression.