virtual-parquet 0.1.1

A booster 💪 for your Parquet files

virtual

A booster 💪 for your Parquet file sizes.

🛠 Build

pip3 install virtual-parquet

or

pip3 install .

🔗 Examples

A demo can be found at examples/demo.ipynb.

🗜️ Compress

import pandas as pd
import virtual

df = pd.read_csv('file.csv')

...

virtual.to_parquet(df, 'file_virtual.parquet')

% Virtualization finished: Check out 'file.parquet'.

🥢 Read

import virtual

df = virtual.from_parquet('file_virtual.parquet')

📊 Query

import virtual

virtual.query(
  'select avg(price) from read_parquet("file_virtual.parquet") where year >= 2024',
  engine = 'duckdb'
)

Additional Features

🔍 Discover the Functions Found

import pandas as pd
import virtual

df = pd.read_csv('file.csv')

functions = virtual.train(df)

% Functions saved under functions.json.

📚 Citation

Please do cite our (very) cool work if you use virtual in your work.

@inproceedings{
  virtual,
  title={{Lightweight Correlation-Aware Table Compression}},
  author={Mihail Stoian and Alexander van Renen and Jan Kobiolka and Ping-Lin Kuo and Josif Grabocka and Andreas Kipf},
  booktitle={NeurIPS 2024 Third Table Representation Learning Workshop},
  year={2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=z7eIn3aShi}
}