🔍 Exploring Parquet files… from your terminal!#
Parqeye, an open-source tool that lets you inspect Parquet files directly from the terminal.
Perfect for people who work with data and want a quick, visual way to understand what’s inside.
✨ What I liked most
- 🧭 Interactive view: browse tables with the keyboard
- 🧬 Schema explorer: see types, nested structures, and definitions
- 🗂️ Full metadata: version, encoding, statistics
- 📊 Row groups: distribution and stats per group
- 🖥️ All from the terminal, no notebooks or heavy tools needed
🧒 Quick explanation#
A Parquet file is like an “organized box” that stores data very efficiently.
Parqeye lets you open that box and see what’s inside:
- how the columns are organized,
- what data types it has,
- how much data it contains,
- and a table-like view to browse it.
It’s like a lightweight data viewer to quickly understand a dataset without loading it into Python, Spark, or heavier tools.
More information at the link 👇
Also published on LinkedIn.
