High-Performance Querying of Parquet Files on Data Lakes

This technical whitepaper explores how Alluxio serves as a high-performance caching layer for querying Parquet files stored in AWS S3, achieving sub-millisecond latency and significantly improving query performance. It discusses architectural optimizations, workload design objectives, and the challenges of querying large-scale datasets, demonstrating a 1,000x performance gain over traditional methods. Ideal for data-driven organizations seeking efficient data access solutions.