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What is the canonical way to compress a Dataset?

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Given that Arrow is the preferred backend for a Dataset, what is a user supposed to do if they want concurrent reads, concurrent writes AND on-disk compression for a larger dataset?

Parquet would be the obvious answer except that there is no native support for writing sharded, parquet datasets concurrently [[1](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/7047)].

Am I missing something?

And if so, why is this not the standard/default way that `Dataset`'s work as they do in Xarray, Ray Data, Composer, etc.?

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