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  • apetrov 15 hours 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 12 hours ago
      Depending on the filetype, you might be better off with a dedicated table tool like VisiData https://www.visidata.org/docs/formats/
    • sanspareilsmyn 15 hours 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 13 hours 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 15 hours ago
      I upvote this suggestion and add pickle and hd5 to the list.