How to read a Parquet file into Pandas DataFrame?
pandas 0.21 introduces new functions for Parquet: import pandas as pd pd.read_parquet(‘example_pa.parquet’, engine=”pyarrow”) or import pandas as pd pd.read_parquet(‘example_fp.parquet’, engine=”fastparquet”) The above link explains: These engines are very similar and should read/write nearly identical parquet format files. These libraries differ by having different underlying dependencies (fastparquet by using numba, while pyarrow uses a c-library).