Show HN: Parqv – Interactive TUI Parquet Visualizer

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apetrov · 10d ago

not sure why it should be specific to parquet file. a thin UI wrapper around duckdb could do the trick but for majority of formats (pq, csv, json, sqlite, iceberg, deltalake)

AnonymousPlanet · 10d ago

Depending on the filetype, you might be better off with a dedicated table tool like VisiData https://www.visidata.org/docs/formats/

sanspareilsmyn · 10d ago

Thanks for your idea. I first thought that simply viewing data might not be useful as many IDEs already handle basic data previews. One of core goals was to access stored metadata directly from the file without necessarily scanning the data. Your idea of potentially mixing current implementation (using pyarrow) with DuckDB is very interesting:)

apetrov · 10d ago

note: with duckdb you get network storage for free (ie delta table on s3 works the same as local) and i guess a smaller deps than pyarrow (might be wrong)

dammaj · 10d ago

I upvote this suggestion and add pickle and hd5 to the list.

sanspareilsmyn · 10d ago

I would definitely add it to my roadmap

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Show HN: Parqv – Interactive TUI Parquet Visualizer

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