Read Parquet files using Azure Databricks

This article shows you how to read data from Apache Parquet files using Azure Databricks.

Apache Parquet is a columnar file format with optimizations that speed up queries. It's a more efficient file format than CSV or JSON.

For more information, see Parquet Files.

See the following Apache Spark reference articles for supported read and write options.

• Read
  • Python
  • Scala
• Write
  • Python
  • Scala

The following notebook shows how to read and write data to Parquet files.

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