How to convert an 500GB SQL table into Apache Parquet?

Question

Perhaps this is well documented, but I am getting very confused how to do this (there are many Apache tools).

When I create an SQL table, I create the table using the fo

Answer 1

Apache Spark can be used to do this:

1.load your table from mysql via jdbc
2.save it as a parquet file

Example:

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
df = spark.read.jdbc("YOUR_MYSQL_JDBC_CONN_STRING",  "YOUR_TABLE",properties={"user": "YOUR_USER", "password": "YOUR_PASSWORD"})
df.write.parquet("YOUR_HDFS_FILE")