# Install go-parquet-tools with Homebrew, Nix

Utility to deal with Parquet data. Version 1.54.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-02. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#parquet-tools.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:go-parquet-tools
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install go-parquet-tools
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#parquet-tools
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/pa/parquet-tools/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:go-parquet-tools
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.54.0
- **Source summary:** Utility to deal with Parquet data
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/hangxie/parquet-tools>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/hangxie/parquet-tools>
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-02T18:00:37Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- parquet-tools (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.54.0
## Project history and usage

parquet-tools is a Go command-line utility for inspecting and manipulating Apache Parquet files.

### Project history

The public repository was created in 2021. Its README describes a utility to inspect Parquet files and documents a growing command set for reading, importing, merging, splitting, transcoding, and reporting metadata from Parquet data.

### Adoption history

The project packages a Parquet inspection workflow for users who want a single static-style CLI instead of a JVM-oriented toolchain. Its README documents releases, Homebrew installation, container images, and prebuilt deb and RPM packages.

### How it is used

Practitioners use parquet-tools to print schemas, row counts, metadata, and records; import CSV, JSON, or JSONL into Parquet; merge or split files; and transcode compression or encoding. The README also documents access to local files and remote storage such as S3, GCS, Azure storage, HDFS, and HTTP endpoints.

### Why package nerds care

For package users, go-parquet-tools is significant because Parquet debugging is common in data pipelines, and a small CLI with packaged binaries lowers the cost of checking column encodings, row groups, encryption metadata, and file layout during development or incident response.

### Timeline

- 2021: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2024: v1.x releases available for the Go CLI.
- 2026: v1.52.0 release published.

### Related projects

- Apache Parquet is the columnar storage format the tool inspects and rewrites. Homebrew distributes the command as go-parquet-tools while the executable is named parquet-tools.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/hangxie/parquet-tools>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/go-parquet-tools>
- <https://github.com/hangxie/parquet-tools>
- <https://github.com/hangxie/parquet-tools/releases>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for go-parquet-tools. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - parquet-tools: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/pa/parquet-tools/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/go-parquet-tools.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/go-parquet-tools.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph