Red Parquet is the Ruby bindings of Apache Parquet. Red Parquet is based on GObject Introspection.
Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format.
GObject Introspection is a middleware for language bindings of C library. GObject Introspection can generate language bindings automatically at runtime.
Red Parquet uses Apache Parquet GLib and gobject-introspection gem to generate Ruby bindings of Apache Parquet.
Apache Parquet GLib is a C wrapper for Apache Parquet C++. GObject Introspection can't use Apache Parquet C++ directly. Apache Parquet GLib is a bridge between Apache Parquet C++ and GObject Introspection.
gobject-introspection gem is a Ruby bindings of GObject Introspection. Red Parquet uses GObject Introspection via gobject-introspection gem.
Install Apache Parquet GLib before install Red Parquet. Use packages.red-data-tools.org for installing Apache Parquet GLib.
Note that the Apache Parquet GLib packages are "unofficial". "Official" packages will be released in the future.
Install Red Parquet after you install Apache Parquet GLib:
% gem install red-parquet
require "parquet"
table = Arrow::Table.load("/dev/shm/data.parquet")
# Process data in table
table.save("/dev/shm/data-processed.parquet")