diff --git a/hyper/benchmark.sh b/hyper/benchmark.sh
index f61f185e49..a33527ee30 100755
--- a/hyper/benchmark.sh
+++ b/hyper/benchmark.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-export BENCH_DOWNLOAD_SCRIPT="download-hits-csv"
+export BENCH_DOWNLOAD_SCRIPT="download-hits-parquet-single"
 exec ../lib/benchmark-common.sh
diff --git a/hyper/create.sql b/hyper/create.sql
index 3b376b0624..267a35b710 100644
--- a/hyper/create.sql
+++ b/hyper/create.sql
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+create temp external table hits_parquet
+for 'hits.parquet'
+with (format => 'parquet', binary_as_text => true, immutable => true);
+
 create table hits (
     watchid               bigint       not null,
     javaenable            smallint     not null,
@@ -106,3 +110,111 @@ create table hits (
     clid                  integer      not null,
     assumed primary key (counterid, eventdate, userid, eventtime, watchid)
 );
+
+INSERT INTO hits SELECT
+"WatchID",
+"JavaEnable",
+"Title",
+"GoodEvent",
+to_timestamp("EventTime") AS "EventTime",
+(DATE '1970-01-01' + "EventDate"::integer) AS "EventDate",
+"CounterID",
+"ClientIP",
+"RegionID",
+"UserID",
+"CounterClass",
+"OS",
+"UserAgent",
+"URL",
+"Referer",
+"IsRefresh",
+"RefererCategoryID",
+"RefererRegionID",
+"URLCategoryID",
+"URLRegionID",
+"ResolutionWidth",
+"ResolutionHeight",
+"ResolutionDepth",
+"FlashMajor",
+"FlashMinor",
+"FlashMinor2",
+"NetMajor",
+"NetMinor",
+"UserAgentMajor",
+"UserAgentMinor",
+"CookieEnable",
+"JavascriptEnable",
+"IsMobile",
+"MobilePhone",
+"MobilePhoneModel",
+"Params",
+"IPNetworkID",
+"TraficSourceID",
+"SearchEngineID",
+"SearchPhrase",
+"AdvEngineID",
+"IsArtifical",
+"WindowClientWidth",
+"WindowClientHeight",
+"ClientTimeZone",
+to_timestamp("ClientEventTime") AS "ClientEventTime",
+"SilverlightVersion1",
+"SilverlightVersion2",
+"SilverlightVersion3",
+"SilverlightVersion4",
+"PageCharset",
+"CodeVersion",
+"IsLink",
+"IsDownload",
+"IsNotBounce",
+"FUniqID",
+"OriginalURL",
+"HID",
+"IsOldCounter",
+"IsEvent",
+"IsParameter",
+"DontCountHits",
+"WithHash",
+"HitColor",
+to_timestamp("LocalEventTime") AS "LocalEventTime",
+"Age",
+"Sex",
+"Income",
+"Interests",
+"Robotness",
+"RemoteIP",
+"WindowName",
+"OpenerName",
+"HistoryLength",
+"BrowserLanguage",
+"BrowserCountry",
+"SocialNetwork",
+"SocialAction",
+"HTTPError",
+"SendTiming",
+"DNSTiming",
+"ConnectTiming",
+"ResponseStartTiming",
+"ResponseEndTiming",
+"FetchTiming",
+"SocialSourceNetworkID",
+"SocialSourcePage",
+"ParamPrice",
+"ParamOrderID",
+"ParamCurrency",
+"ParamCurrencyID",
+"OpenstatServiceName",
+"OpenstatCampaignID",
+"OpenstatAdID",
+"OpenstatSourceID",
+"UTMSource",
+"UTMMedium",
+"UTMCampaign",
+"UTMContent",
+"UTMTerm",
+"FromTag",
+"HasGCLID",
+"RefererHash",
+"URLHash",
+"CLID"
+FROM hits_parquet;
diff --git a/hyper/load b/hyper/load
index 9c34e7d839..b3cd219b19 100755
--- a/hyper/load
+++ b/hyper/load
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# Create hits.hyper and COPY hits.csv into it, using the PERSISTENT Hyper
+# Create hits.hyper and load hits.parquet into it, using the PERSISTENT Hyper
 # server started by ./start (descriptor in server.endpoint). Loading through
 # the already-running server avoids briefly running two hyperd instances
-# (each of which would try to claim up to 80% of RAM) during the heavy COPY.
+# (each of which would try to claim up to 80% of RAM) during the heavy load.
 set -e
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC1091
@@ -19,9 +19,11 @@ with open("server.endpoint") as f:
 
 endpoint = Endpoint(connection_descriptor=descriptor, user_agent="clickbench")
 with Connection(endpoint, 'hits.hyper', CreateMode.CREATE_AND_REPLACE) as connection:
-    connection.execute_command(open("create.sql").read())
-    connection.execute_command("copy hits from 'hits.csv' with (format csv)")
+    # The Hyper API accepts one statement per execute_command call.
+    for command in open("create.sql").read().split(";"):
+        if command.strip():
+            connection.execute_command(command)
 PY
 
-rm -f hits.csv
+rm -f hits.parquet
 sync
diff --git a/hyper/results/20260814/c6a.4xlarge.json b/hyper/results/20260814/c6a.4xlarge.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bc4bfd1f88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyper/results/20260814/c6a.4xlarge.json
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+{
+      "system": "Salesforce Hyper",
+      "date": "2026-08-14",
+      "machine": "c6a.4xlarge",
+      "cluster_size": 1,
+      "proprietary": "yes",
+      "hardware": "cpu",
+      "tuned": "no",
+      "tags": ["C++","column-oriented"],
+      "load_time": 283,
+      "data_size": 19076546560,
+      "concurrent_qps": 0.433,
+      "concurrent_error_ratio": 0.011,
+      "result": [
+        [0.061, 0.007, 0.006],
+        [0.118, 0.011, 0.01],
+        [0.381, 0.031, 0.031],
+        [1.056, 0.03, 0.03],
+        [0.789, 0.586, 0.57],
+        [1.915, 0.152, 0.152],
+        [0.105, 0.002, 0.002],
+        [0.138, 0.01, 0.01],
+        [2.045, 0.747, 0.732],
+        [3.369, 0.826, 0.824],
+        [1.181, 0.051, 0.051],
+        [1.184, 0.055, 0.054],
+        [2.072, 0.291, 0.289],
+        [4.472, 0.731, 0.732],
+        [2.079, 0.303, 0.297],
+        [1.451, 0.698, 0.696],
+        [4.388, 1.02, 1.019],
+        [3.973, 0.612, 0.61],
+        [8.397, 2.081, 2.089],
+        [0.159, 0.002, 0.003],
+        [14.72, 0.3, 0.299],
+        [16.122, 0.301, 0.303],
+        [17.226, 0.207, 0.206],
+        [6.242, 0.038, 0.038],
+        [0.979, 0.009, 0.008],
+        [1.884, 0.049, 0.048],
+        [0.995, 0.008, 0.008],
+        [15.123, 0.463, 0.461],
+        [12.806, 7.086, 7.075],
+        [0.189, 0.021, 0.021],
+        [4.808, 0.248, 0.243],
+        [8.353, 0.43, 0.427],
+        [7.775, 3.658, 3.663],
+        [15.21, 1.384, 1.385],
+        [15.193, 1.369, 1.373],
+        [0.967, 0.61, 0.61],
+        [0.165, 0.011, 0.011],
+        [0.13, 0.006, 0.005],
+        [0.156, 0.004, 0.004],
+        [0.23, 0.021, 0.021],
+        [0.213, 0.002, 0.002],
+        [0.249, 0.004, 0.003],
+        [0.149, 0.005, 0.005]
+]
+  } 
+  
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