The Quest for Instant Data

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platypii · 1d ago

This is the story of how I spent a year making the world's fastest Parquet loader in JavaScript. The goal:

- Make a faster, more interactive viewer for AI datasets (which are mostly parquet format)

- Simplify the stack by doing everything from the browser (no backend)

TLDR: My open-source library Hyparquet can load data in 155ms, which would take 3466ms in duckdb-wasm for the same file.

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The Quest for Instant Data

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