This is still in the early analysis phase and will be built for Qlik Sense SaaS, pending the analysis and subsequent architecture investigations will provide a clearer indication of its applicability for Qlik Sense Client Managed
FYI, we had the same issue for one of our customers (load parquet files from azure) so I developed a connector for this. It's beta/unfinished/missing options (no preview, load all columns, ...) and quite slow but it's doing the job, customer is happy :). Here is a sample script:
// link to azure blob storage with parquet files
lib connect to 'datalake azure';
// load all parquet files from dataiku/RCU/CUSTOMER/ in dataiku container
select * from dataiku.dataiku/RCU/CUSTOMER/;
As I said, it's quick and dirty, I'll be very happy to replace it with Qlik's one, once published, but for now...
If needed, I could share it (authentication to azure based on shared key only, shared access signature not supported)
This is still in a planned state, no current ETA as the team involved working on other priority items, i will post an ETA once we get onto the next stage, currently alternatives are available via 3rd party layers and ODBC e.g. impala/Athena