Hardwood 1.0 offers a fast, dependency‑free Parquet reader for Java 21+
Hardwood 1.0 is a production‑ready, JVM‑native Parquet reader that drops every mandatory dependency and parallelises page decoding across all CPU cores. It supports the full Parquet type set, projection, and predicate push‑down, giving Java 21+ apps a lean, high‑throughput way to ingest columnar data.