Parquet Viewer

A simple command-line tool to read and display the contents of an Apache Parquet file.

Description

This utility takes the path to a Parquet file as a command-line argument, reads the file using the peroxide crate, and prints the resulting DataFrame to the standard output.

Installation

Ensure you have the Rust toolchain installed (see rustup.rs).

You can install parquet-viewer directly from crates.io using Cargo:

cargo install parquet-viewer

Alternatively, you can clone the repository and build it locally:

git clone https://github.com/Axect/parquet-viewer
cd parquet-viewer
cargo build --release
# The executable will be in ./target/release/parquet-viewer

Usage

Run the tool by providing the path to your Parquet file:

parquet-viewer <path/to/your/file.parquet>

Example:

parquet-viewer data/my_data.parquet

The contents of the Parquet file will be printed to your console in a tabular format.

Dependencies

This tool relies on the following major Rust crate:

• peroxide: For reading Parquet files and handling DataFrames.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.