Red Parquet is the Ruby bindings of Apache Parquet. Red Parquet is based on GObject Introspection. Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format. GObject Introspection is a middleware for language bindings of C library. GObject Introspection can generate language bindings automatically at runtime. Red Parquet uses Apache Parquet GLib and gobject-introspection gem to generate Ruby bindings of Apache Parquet.