title: Is there a simple way to load parquet files directly into Cassandra?
body: <p>I have got a parquet file / folder (about 1GB) that I would like to load into my local Cassandra DB. Unfortunately I could not find any way (except via SPARK (in Scala)) to directly load this file into CDB. If I blow out the parquet file into CSV it'll just get way too huge for my laptop. </p>
  
  <p>I am setting up a Cassandra DB for a big data analytics case (I've got about 25TB in raw data that we need to get searchable fast). Right now I am running some local tests on how to optimally design the keyspaces, indices and tables before move to Cassandra as a Service on a Hyperscaler. Converting the data to CSV is not an option as this blows up too much.</p>
  
  <pre><code>COPY firmographics.company (col1,col2,col3.....) FROM 'C:\Users\Public\Downloads\companies.csv' WITH DELIMITER='\t' AND HEADER=TRUE;
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