Parquet Tool

Command line tool to manage parquet file

apache/parquet-mr/tree/master/parquet-tools

• maven 3,git, jdk-7/8

git clone https://github.com/Parquet/parquet-mr.git 
cd parquet-mr/parquet-tools/ 
mvn clean package -Plocal 

With parquet-tool

java -jar parquet-tools-X.X.X.jar schema sample.parquet 

• The whole file

java -jar parquet-tools-X.X.X.jar cat sample.parquet 

• A few line

java -jar parquet-tools-X.X.X.jar head -n5 sample.parquet 

java -jar parquet-tools-X.X.X.jar meta sample.parquet

• https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/73952/build-and-use-parquet-tools-to-read-parquet-files.html