Does it work with some format that supports indexes like Apache carbon data rather than parquet?
Parquet is kind of winning the OSS columnar format race right now.
It's technically not the very best format (ORC has some advantages), but it's so ubiquitous and good enough -- still far better than than CSV or the next best competing format. I have not heard of Carbon -- it sounds like an interesting niche format, hopefully it's gaining ground.
It's the VHS, not the betamax.
[1] https://parquet.apache.org/docs/file-format/data-pages/encod...
I’m sure there are more advanced formats.