From a36f5a98db53d6882d1ebc2fce480e61c5dd054c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenny Daniel Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:01:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add demo to README --- README.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d311175..40d7533 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -22,6 +22,19 @@ Dependency free since 2023! - Fast data loading for large scale ML applications - Bring data visualization closer to the user, in the browser +Why make a new parquet parser in javascript? +First, existing libraries like [parquetjs](https://github.com/ironSource/parquetjs) are officially "inactive". +Importantly, they do not support the kind of stream processing needed to make a really performant parser in the browser. +And finally, no dependencies means that hyparquet is lean, and easy to package and deploy. + +## Demo + +Online parquet file reader demo available at: + +https://hyparam.github.io/hyparquet/ + +Demo source: [index.html](index.html) + ## Installation ```bash