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+# Copyright 2013-2020 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class ParquetFormat(MavenPackage):
+    """ParquetFormat is a columnar storage format that supports nested data."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/"
+    url      = "https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/archive/apache-parquet-format-2.8.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('2.8.0', sha256='345c044cea73997162e0c38ae830509ee424faf49c90974e4f244079a3df01b0')
+    version('2.7.0', sha256='e821ffc67f61b49afce017ce2d1d402b4df352ca49dbeae167b06c4d3264b6ba')
+
+    depends_on('thrift@0.12.0', when='@2.7.0:')
+    depends_on('java@8', type=('build', 'run'))