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24 alternatives to Parqv – Interactive TUI Parquet Visualizer

Interactive Python TUI for visualizing and analyzing files with multiple formats - sanspareilsmyn/parqv

Parqv is a terminal-based tool for exploring and visualizing Parquet files interactively. It allows users to browse Parquet data structures directly in the command line without leaving their terminal. The tool is… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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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

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    simplest possible native GUI for inspecting JSON objects with jq - fiatjaf/jqview

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Quick and dirty duckdb in the browser, parquet!

    2025 · quak.dev · its alternatives →

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    While speccing out this spreadsheet tool, I realized that I never had to think about the keybindings. It all just came naturally from Vim. Normal/insert/visual modes, hjkl navigation, dd/yy/p, :w, :q. The usual muscle memory works. It supports CSV/TSV import and export, and a native .cell format that preserves formulas. The formula engine handles SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, and IF with range references. The codebase is a Cargo workspace: a pure cell-sheet-core library (no TUI dependency) and a cell-sheet-tui crate on top of ratatui. Early days, but it's usable. To…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data - saulpw/visidata

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🗄️ A simple CLI for converting WARC to Parquet. Contribute to maxcountryman/warc-parquet development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer. Contribute to sayanarijit/xplr development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We’ve built Pretzel, an open-source data exploration and visualization tool that runs fully in the browser and can handle large files (200 MB CSV on my 8gb MacBook air is snappy). It’s also reactive - so if, for example, you change a filter, all the data transform blocks after it re-evaluate automatically. You can try it here: https://pretzelai.github.io/ (static hosted webpage) or see a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73wNEun_L7w You can play with the demo CSV that’s pre-loaded (GitHub data of text-editor adjacent projects) or upload…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Interactive JSON filter using jq. Contribute to ynqa/jnv development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Yet Another Compiler Visualizer. Contribute to ashutoshbsathe/yacv development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built Duck-UI, a web-based SQL editor that runs DuckDB entirely in your browser via WebAssembly. No backend required. The Problem: Every time I needed to query csv, parquet, or even to play with SQL, I had to either: (a) spin up a Jupyter notebook (b) use the CLI (c) upload to a hosted service. Friction at every step (TOO MUCH to load a csv or even to test some sql (study)... The Solution: DuckDB's WASM runtime lets us run SQL analysis client-side. Load CSV/JSON/Parquet files from disk or URL, write SQL, get results instantly. Data stays on your machine. What It Does: SQL editor…

    2025 · demo.duckui.com · its alternatives →

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    Parsers▲300

    Extract structured data and visualize it without code

    2019 · parsers.me · its alternatives →

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    GHCJS front-end for queryparser. Contribute to dlthomas/sql-viewer development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    qq is jq inspired interoperable config format transcoder with interactive querying. It features an optional interactive editor with autocomplete for structured data. And supports inputs and outputs for json, xml, ini, toml, yaml, hcl, tf, and csv to varying degrees of capability.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN. I've always found writing data visualisation scripts boring and repetitive in data science workflows earlier in my career, so I built this tool to automate it. The available methods are based on my experience in econometrics where histograms and scatterplots were the starting points to check data distributions. The link is to the documentation and the app is freely available at https://visprex.com, and if you're curious about the implementation it's open source at https://github.com/visprex/visprex. I'd appreciate any comments and feedback!

    2024 · docs.visprex.com · its alternatives →

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    Open Lakehouse Format for Multimodal AI. Convert from Parquet in 2 lines of code for 100x faster random access, vector index, and data versioning. Compatible with Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, Pyarrow, and PyTorch with more integrations coming.. - lance-format/lance

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A fast, lightweight desktop viewer for .parquet files

    Mar 2026 · jaungiers.github.io · its alternatives →

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    CLI tool for exploring arXiv (inspired by karpathy's brilliant ArXiv Sanity Preserver) - knguyenanhoa/cli-arxiv

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🐚📊 Show off your most used shell commands. Contribute to irevenko/tsukae development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    tuitab▲2

    Explore CSV, Parquet, JSON, SQLite, DuckDB in your terminal

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    For the last year I’ve been developing Hyperparam — a collection of small, fast, dependency-free open-source libraries designed for data scientists and ML engineers to actually look at their data. - Hyparquet: Read any Parquet file in browser/node.js - Icebird: Explore Iceberg tables without needing Spark/Presto - HighTable: Virtual scrolling of millions of rows - Hyparquet-Writer: Export Parquet easily from JS - Hyllama: Read llama.cpp .gguf LLM metadata efficiently CLI for viewing local files: npx hyperparam dataset.parquet Example dataset on Hugging Face Space:…

    2025 · hyperparam.app · its alternatives →

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