diff --git a/parquet_file/src/serialize.rs b/parquet_file/src/serialize.rs
index 052cde23b3..685d389074 100644
--- a/parquet_file/src/serialize.rs
+++ b/parquet_file/src/serialize.rs
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ use thiserror::Error;
 
 use crate::metadata::{IoxMetadata, METADATA_KEY};
 
-/// Parquet row group size
-pub const ROW_GROUP_SIZE: usize = 1024 * 1024;
+/// Parquet row group write size
+pub const ROW_GROUP_WRITE_SIZE: usize = 1024 * 1024;
 
 /// [`RecordBatch`] to Parquet serialisation errors.
 #[derive(Debug, Error)]
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ fn writer_props(meta: &IoxMetadata) -> Result<WriterProperties, prost::EncodeErr
             value: Some(base64::encode(&bytes)),
         }]))
         .set_compression(Compression::ZSTD)
-        .set_max_row_group_size(ROW_GROUP_SIZE);
+        .set_max_row_group_size(ROW_GROUP_WRITE_SIZE);
 
     Ok(builder.build())
 }
diff --git a/parquet_file/src/storage.rs b/parquet_file/src/storage.rs
index 5d185155a5..2e2c48fec7 100644
--- a/parquet_file/src/storage.rs
+++ b/parquet_file/src/storage.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 use crate::{
     metadata::{IoxMetadata, IoxParquetMetaData},
-    serialize::{self, CodecError, ROW_GROUP_SIZE},
+    serialize::{self, CodecError, ROW_GROUP_WRITE_SIZE},
     ParquetFilePath,
 };
 use arrow::{
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ use std::{collections::HashMap, sync::Arc, time::Duration};
 use thiserror::Error;
 use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
 
+/// Parquet row group read size
+pub const ROW_GROUP_READ_SIZE: usize = 1024;
+
+// ensure read and write work well together
+// Skip clippy due to <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/8159>.
+#[allow(clippy::assertions_on_constants)]
+const _: () = assert!(ROW_GROUP_WRITE_SIZE % ROW_GROUP_READ_SIZE == 0);
 /// Errors returned during a Parquet "put" operation, covering [`RecordBatch`]
 /// pull from the provided stream, encoding, and finally uploading the bytes to
 /// the object store.
@@ -275,7 +282,8 @@ async fn download_and_scan_parquet(
         };
 
     let mask = ProjectionMask::roots(arrow_reader.parquet_schema(), mask);
-    let record_batch_reader = arrow_reader.get_record_reader_by_columns(mask, ROW_GROUP_SIZE)?;
+    let record_batch_reader =
+        arrow_reader.get_record_reader_by_columns(mask, ROW_GROUP_READ_SIZE)?;
 
     for batch in record_batch_reader {
         let batch = batch.map(|batch| {