I'm using the parquet file. I've found that parquet file has multiple data types, such as int64,int32,boolean,binary,float,double,int96 and fixed_len_byte_array
.
I know int64,int32,int96,boolean,binary,float and double
. But I can't understand ‘fixed_len_byte_array’
.
What does "fixed_len_byte_array" mean?
It's a normal byte array, only it's size is prefixed for better or worse, you cant change it.
You can see example of usage in
https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/LogicalTypes.md