The two data processing tools that I use locally with parquet are: * python pandas [1] [2] for programmatic access * visidata [3] (CLI that uses pandas under the hood) for more "interactive" accessI'm wondering why Parquet is not yet a supported format in LibreOffice Calc (and most desktop worksheet processing tools for that matter).
On an unrelated note, I was also surprised to find out that Tableau only supports Parquet through a database server like Apache Drill [4][5].
I feel that parquet files are under-rated, and that perhaps pushing for native desktop application support would encourage its usage over the standard (and less efficient) CSV file format. I may be completely wrong and would welcome feedback.
* [1] https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_parquet.html * [2] https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.to_parquet.html * [3] https://visidata.org/formats/ * [4] https://drill.apache.org/docs/tableau-examples/ * [5] https://drill.apache.org/docs/parquet-format/ -- Shadi Akiki Founder & CEO, AutofitCloud https://autofitcloud.com/ +1 813 579 4935