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| Type | Concept |
| Note created | Mar 5, 2025 |
GeoParquet is a cloud-native file format, based on Apache Parquet, which had no geometry type before. It is a columnar format, so you can do partial read on columns as well. It stores a bunch of rows together, and allows for basic spatial filtering on it. It is not based on a classical spatial index, to figure out how to best structure the file.
GeoParquet was a standard vouched for by CARTO and its place in the Open Geospatial Consortium. However, since Apache Parquet is now expected to support the Geography data type, it is expected now to be merged upstream: future work on GeoParquet is most likely to take place on the Apache Parquet standard itself.