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Consider removing parquetexporter #27284

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atoulme opened this issue Sep 30, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #27285
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Consider removing parquetexporter #27284

atoulme opened this issue Sep 30, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #27285

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atoulme commented Sep 30, 2023

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I am the original author of the parquetexporter, and I think it needs to be removed.

Apache Parquet is a project defining a columnar data format that allows to work well with big data and S3-type storage.

This exporter was meant to be used to export data to Parquet files, but it's ambiguous how to write those files to S3. The awss3exporter would be a preferred approach to writing data. It is possible an encoder using Parquet will be applied moving forward, allowing easy marshaling and unmarshaling.

As is, the exporter is misleading ; it offers the hope for Parquet support but does little to get it done.

There was work from me on delivering a Parquet schema based off our protobuf schema, but it faltered. It appears the Otel Arrow approach is superior there and we should use this move forward.

In any case, I think it's time to remove this exporter altogether. No work has taken place on it in the last year.

@atoulme atoulme added the needs triage New item requiring triage label Sep 30, 2023
@atoulme atoulme added exporter/parquet and removed needs triage New item requiring triage labels Sep 30, 2023
@crobert-1 crobert-1 added the chore label Oct 2, 2023
dmitryax pushed a commit that referenced this issue Oct 11, 2023
**Description:**
Remove the parquet exporter

**Link to tracking Issue:**
Fixes #27284
JaredTan95 pushed a commit to openinsight-proj/opentelemetry-collector-contrib that referenced this issue Oct 18, 2023
**Description:**
Remove the parquet exporter

**Link to tracking Issue:**
Fixes open-telemetry#27284
jmsnll pushed a commit to jmsnll/opentelemetry-collector-contrib that referenced this issue Nov 12, 2023
**Description:**
Remove the parquet exporter

**Link to tracking Issue:**
Fixes open-telemetry#27284
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