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Parquet Viewer

Upload a .parquet file to inspect its schema and browse rows with sortable, type-aware columns.

Free & unlimited

Preview reads the first set of row groups into memory — very large files may take a moment.

All processing happens in your browser. No data is sent to any server.

About this tool

  1. 1

    Upload Parquet file

    Select an Apache Parquet (.parquet) file. These are commonly used in data engineering and analytics.

  2. 2

    View schema

    Inspect the file schema - column names, data types, and nested structure information.

  3. 3

    Browse data

    View the data in a paginated table with sorting and filtering capabilities.

  4. 4

    Export

    Export the data as CSV or JSON for use in other tools.

  • Parquet files use columnar storage - the viewer shows row-oriented data for easy human reading.
  • Large Parquet files may only show the first N rows - use the row count indicator to know how much data exists.
  • Check the schema carefully for nested or complex types (arrays, structs) that may display differently.
  • Parquet file schema display with column names and data types
  • Row data browser with pagination for large files
  • Support for nested and complex data types
  • Column statistics (min, max, null count) from Parquet metadata
  • Export to CSV or JSON formats
  • Inspecting Parquet output files from Spark, Pandas, or other data processing frameworks
  • Debugging data pipeline issues by examining intermediate Parquet files
  • Previewing Parquet data before loading into a database or data warehouse
  • Sharing Parquet file contents with team members who don't have data engineering tools installed

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