parqeye ☆

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Description:
Peek inside Parquet files right from your terminal

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 27, 2025

Links: Homepage | GitHub | formulae.brew.sh

Stars: 554 | Forks: 11 | Language: Rust | Category: Developer tools

Tags: parquet cli data-inspection rust analytics

Install: brew install parqeye

About:
Parqeye is a command-line utility written in Rust designed for inspecting Apache Parquet files efficiently. It allows users to view metadata, schema information, and row group statistics without loading the entire file into memory. This tool provides a fast and lightweight alternative to launching a full analytics environment for quick data validation tasks.

Key Features:

Fast, memory-efficient inspection of Parquet metadata
Displays schema, row groups, and column statistics
Zero-config command-line interface
Written in Rust for performance and reliability

Use Cases:

Validating data structure and schema before ingestion
Inspecting file sizes and compression ratios for optimization
Quickly checking row group statistics for partitioning strategies

Alternatives:

parquet-tools – Parqeye is a standalone binary, whereas parquet-tools is often a Java-based utility requiring a JVM.
duckdb – DuckDB is a full SQL engine; Parqeye is a specialized viewer for metadata only.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 27, 2025 4:09pm		0	META	8fba4732