{"id":35297,"date":"2025-09-05T07:28:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/combining-parquet-for-metadata-and-native-formats-for-video-audio-and-images-with-datachain-ai-data-warehouse\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:28:04","slug":"combining-parquet-for-metadata-and-native-formats-for-video-audio-and-images-with-datachain-ai-data-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/combining-parquet-for-metadata-and-native-formats-for-video-audio-and-images-with-datachain-ai-data-warehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Combining Parquet For Metadata And Native Formats For Video, Audio, And Images With DataChain AI Data Warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>The article outlines several fundamental problems that arise when teams try to store raw media data (like video, audio, and images) inside Parquet files, and explains how DataChain addresses these issues for modern multimodal datasets &#8211; by using Parquet strictly for structured metadata while keeping heavy binary media in their native formats and referencing them externally for optimal performance: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datachain\/comments\/1n7xsst\/parquet_is_great_for_tables_terrible_for_video\/\">reddit.com\/r\/datachain\/comments\/1n7xsst\/parquet_is_great_for_tables_terrible_for_video\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It shows how to use Datachain to fix these problems &#8211; to keep raw media in object storage, maintain metadata in Parquet, and link the two via references.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/thumbsdrivesmecrazy\"> \/u\/thumbsdrivesmecrazy <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1n8wnan\/combining_parquet_for_metadata_and_native_formats\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1n8wnan\/combining_parquet_for_metadata_and_native_formats\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-35297 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='35297' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-35297 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-35297 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article outlines several fundamental problems that arise when teams try to store raw media data (like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}