Parquet是一种柱状(columnar)格式，可以被许多其它的数据处理系统支持。Spark SQL提供支持读和写Parquet文件的功能，这些文件可以自动地保留原始数据的模式。

加载数据

// sqlContext from the previous example is used in this example.
// createSchemaRDD is used to implicitly convert an RDD to a SchemaRDD.
import sqlContext.createSchemaRDD

val people: RDD[Person] = ... // An RDD of case class objects, from the previous example.

// The RDD is implicitly converted to a SchemaRDD by createSchemaRDD, allowing it to be stored using Parquet.
people.saveAsParquetFile("people.parquet")

// Read in the parquet file created above.  Parquet files are self-describing so the schema is preserved.
// The result of loading a Parquet file is also a SchemaRDD.
val parquetFile = sqlContext.parquetFile("people.parquet")

//Parquet files can also be registered as tables and then used in SQL statements.
parquetFile.registerTempTable("parquetFile")
val teenagers = sqlContext.sql("SELECT name FROM parquetFile WHERE age >= 13 AND age <= 19")
teenagers.map(t => "Name: " + t(0)).collect().foreach(println)

配置

可以在SQLContext上使用setConf方法配置Parquet或者在用SQL时运行SET key=value命令来配置Parquet。