In reply to flo.

Hi flo,
Traditionally parquet files are stored in HDFS and are accessed using Hive. If your parquet files are being stored in HDFS then using SAS/ACCESS to Hadoop is still the best way to get access to that data. If the parquet files are not being stored in HDFS then we have to look at the problem a little bit differently. SAS utilized the Hive functionality of Hadoop in order to read and write file types to HDFS. When storing parquet files outside of HDFS you would still need to incorporate that functionality somehow. For example, you can integrate with a third party tool like Apache Drill. This tool is ODBC/JDBC compliant so you can use SAS/ACCESS to ODBC or SAS/ACCESS to JDBC to read and write Parquet files without using Hadoop.

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