[claytonjy]

A killer use-case here might be interop with Delta Lake; you could allow data scientists to work with the data there (parquet in S3) in a local-like manner, using an API that might be preferable to Spark's!

Has anyone tried this, or know if it's possible?

[maartenbreddels]

My guess is that should be possible, feel free to hop onto https://github.com/vaexio/vaex/discussions !