Getting useful data out of a blockchain has always been harder than it should be. BloxBean just made it significantly easier for Cardano developers by launching the Analytics Store, a new module within its Yaci Store project that exports the chain’s full on-chain history into open, portable Parquet files.
The Cardano Foundation is backing the effort directly, contributing engineering resources to help ensure the tool is production-ready.
What the Analytics Store actually does
The Analytics Store bridges that gap by continuously synchronizing data from PostgreSQL into partitioned Parquet files using an in-process DuckDB engine. It takes the messy, infrastructure-heavy work of indexing and querying blockchain data and turns it into lightweight, analysis-ready exports that any data tool can consume.
Parquet is a columnar storage format widely used in data engineering. It works natively with tools like Python’s pandas, Apache Spark, and essentially any modern analytics stack. By exporting Cardano data in this format, BloxBean is meeting data analysts where they already live, rather than forcing them to learn blockchain-specific tooling first.
