In Exasol 2025.1 and later you can use the IMPORT command to load data from Apache Parquet files in Amazon S3 buckets on AWS using the native bulk loader in Exasol. This allows multiple Parquet files to be imported in parallel across nodes, enabling higher throughput for larger datasets. Single Parquet files can be read using multiple parallel operations, which results in faster and more efficient data read operations.

Exasol 2025.1 and later supports the Apache Iceberg open table format in Parquet files.