Parqeye
A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files
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I built a Rust-based CLI/terminal UI for inspecting Parquet files—data, metadata, and row-group-level structure—right from the terminal. If someone sent me a Parquet file, I used to open DuckDB or Polars just to see what was inside. Now I can do it with one command.Repo: https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye
HN · launched Nov 17, 2025 · 167 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views
Niche: developer data and local file viewers · 49 launches, 9 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Parqeye is a terminal UI built on top of existing Parquet Rust crates (arrow/parquet) and Ratatui to display metadata and data tables in the console.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: DuckDB with UI plugin, VisiData, Python/R REPLs with pyarrow/polars/duckdb, nail-parquet, JSONL Viewer Pro
Concerns raised: No remote/S3 support yet, Binary size is large (90MB for TUI tool), High glibc version requirement limits compatibility with older systems, Installation issues with outdated CLI tools, What spreadsheets are already used for
Feature requests: Remote/S3 file support, Vi keybindings, Mouse support, Scatter plot visualization in statistics, Excel support for parquet files
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 176 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 177 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 8 days after the earliest competitor.
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