Setting up a Java Runtime Environment
Some of the recipes in this chapter use the Parquet file format. This is a columnar file format that is widely used nowadays in cloud environments. The improvements that have been made to the format makes it an uncontestable choice, especially for files that contain large volumes of data. Reading from a Parquet file is much faster than reading from any other file formats. The following URL links to the Parquet website, where you can watch a video for more information on the Parquet file format: https://parquet.apache.org/.
Getting ready
We must install a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to be able to use the Parquet file format. That's the first thing we'll do in this recipe.
How to do it…
Now, let's begin the installation process:
- Go to the following website to download Oracle JRE. We're downloading version 8, which is compatible with the Microsoft Azure Feature Pack at the time of writing:https://www...
