# hyparquet

![hyparquet](hyparquet.jpg)

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JavaScript parser for [Apache Parquet](https://parquet.apache.org) files.

Apache Parquet is an open source, column-oriented data file format designed for efficient data storage and retrieval.

Dependency free since 2023!

## Usage

```bash
npm install hyparquet
```

```js
import { parquetMetadata } from 'hyparquet'

const metadata = parquetMetdata(arrayBuffer)
```

## References

 - https://github.com/apache/parquet-format
 - https://github.com/dask/fastparquet
 - https://github.com/apache/thrift
 - https://github.com/google/snappy
 - https://github.com/zhipeng-jia/snappyjs