Read Parquet files from Scala without using Spark

Question

Is it possible to read parquet files from Scala without using Apache Spark?

I found a project which allows us to read and write avro files using plain scala.

Answer 1

Yes, you don't have to use Spark to read/write Parquet. Just use parquet lib directly from your Scala code (and that's what Spark is doing anyway): http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cparquet