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[Parquet](http://parquet.io) is a columnar format that is supported by many other data processing systems.
Spark SQL provides support for both reading and writing Parquet files that automatically preserves the schema
-of the original data.
+of the original data. When writing Parquet files, all columns are automatically converted to be nullable for
+compatibility reasons.
### Loading Data Programmatically