title: A comparison between fastparquet and pyarrow?
body: <p>After some searching I failed to find a thorough comparison of <code>fastparquet</code> and <code>pyarrow</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I found this blog <a href="http://wesmckinney.com/blog/python-parquet-update/" rel="noreferrer">post</a> (a basic comparison of speeds). </p>
  
  <p>and a github <a href="https://github.com/dask/fastparquet/issues/150#issuecomment-313466287" rel="noreferrer">discussion</a> that claims that files created with <code>fastparquet</code> do not support  AWS-athena (btw is it still the case?)</p>
  
  <p>when/why would I use one over the other? what are the major advantages and disadvantages ?</p>
  
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  <p>my specific use case is processing data with <a href="https://dask.pydata.org/en/latest/" rel="noreferrer"><code>dask</code></a> writing it to s3 and then reading/analyzing it with AWS-athena.</p>