title: Read Parquet files from Scala without using Spark
body: <p>Is it possible to read parquet files from Scala without using Apache Spark?</p>
  
  <p>I found a project which allows us to read and write avro files using plain scala.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/sksamuel/avro4s" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/sksamuel/avro4s</a></p>
  
  <p>However I can't find a way to read and write parquet files using plain scala program without using Spark?</p>