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title: "iparq"
description: "Inspect local Parquet metadata, compression, encodings, indexes, statistics, and Bloom filters with iParq."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/iparq
last-updated: 2026-10-02
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# iparq
Inspect local Parquet metadata, compression, encodings, indexes, statistics, and Bloom filters with iParq.
- Slug: iparq
- Publisher: MiguelElGallo
- Repository: https://github.com/MiguelElGallo/iparq
- Manifest: plugins/iparq/plugin.json
- Version: 0.8.2
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): databases
- Skills: 1 (iparq-parquet-inspector)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 25
- Repository created: 2025-01-25
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-27
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/iparq
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What iparq does, in the publisher's words

After reading this blog, I began to wonder which Parquet version and compression methods the everyday tools we rely on actually use, only to find that there's no straightforward way to determine this. That curiosity and the difficulty of quickly discovering such details motivated me to create iparq (Information Parquet). My goal with iparq is to help users easily identify the specifics of the Parquet files generated by different engines, making it clear which features, like newer encodings or certain compression algorithms, the creator of the parquet is using.

- Bloom filters: Detects real Bloom-filter metadata and reports its size. Read more in this great article.
- Encodings and types: Shows physical and logical types plus encodings such as RLE_DICTIONARY, DELTA_BINARY_PACKED, and BYTE_STREAM_SPLIT.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MiguelElGallo/iparq/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- iparq-parquet-inspector: Inspect Parquet file metadata with the iParq CLI, including compression, encodings, physical and logical types, row groups, sort order, statistics, geospatial statistics, dictionary pages, page indexes, page locations, Bloom filters, and storage sizes. Use when an agent needs to explain how one or…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.