Apache Parquet

Amazon RDS creates dumps in Apache Parquet format, so it'll be very helpful to have an ability to work with this format

First time I heard of that format. Are there other tools which can read such files?

For example JetBrains IDE https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21701-big-data-file-viewer

Ok, I have the impression parquet files are useful especially for really big files in general, and not specifically for SQL dumps.

Don't you think it is still most popular to write SQL dumps to a simple text file, and probably zip that file?

Looks like AWS makes dumps only in Parquet format. So I'm looking for a tool that can deal with this format on my local machine.

Is that MySQL/MariaDB on AWS? There should at least be an option to create text file dumps per command line, or?

Yep, it's MySQL. Nope, unfortunately Apache Parquet only: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ExportSnapshot.html

Ok I see.

HeidiSQL has some support for connecting to an RDS instance:

So you could create dumps per HeidiSQL, and probably other tools as well. Just an idea.

To be honest - while reading the first paragraphs of Amazon's documentation on these snapshot files, I think this is beyond what HeidiSQL will support in the near future.

Thanks for a discussion!