[aynyc]

Given the cost of storage is getting cheaper, wouldn't most firms want to use feather for analytic performance? But everyone uses parquet.

[yencabulator]

You can, still, gain a lot of performance by doing less I/O.

[benrutter]

There's definitely a "everyone uses it because everyone uses it" effect.

Feather might be a better fit for sime yse cases, but parquet has fantastic support and is still a pretty good choice for things that feather does.

Unless they're really focussed on eaking out every bit of read performance, people often opt for the well supported path instead.

[outside1234]

What people have done in the face of cheaper storage is store more data.

[vb-8448]

Storage is cheap but bandwidth no.

[farsa]

Storage getting cheaper did not really reach the cloud providers and for self-hosting it has recently gotten even more expensive due to AI bs.