CSV to Parquet

This repo is archived and the code moved to Arrow CLI Tools.

Convert CSV files to Apache Parquet. You may also be interested in json2parquet, csv2arrow, or json2arrow.

Installation

Download prebuilt binaries

You can get the latest releases from https://github.com/domoritz/csv2parquet/releases/.

With Cargo

cargo install csv2parquet

Usage

Usage: csv2parquet [OPTIONS] <CSV> <PARQUET>

Arguments:
  <CSV>      Input CSV file
  <PARQUET>  Output file

Options:
  -s, --schema-file <SCHEMA_FILE>
          File with Arrow schema in JSON format
      --max-read-records <MAX_READ_RECORDS>
          The number of records to infer the schema from. All rows if not present. Setting max-read-records to zero will stop schema inference and all columns will be string typed
      --header <HEADER>
          Set whether the CSV file has headers [possible values: true, false]
  -d, --delimiter <DELIMITER>
          Set the CSV file's column delimiter as a byte character [default: ,]
  -c, --compression <COMPRESSION>
          Set the compression [possible values: uncompressed, snappy, gzip, lzo, brotli, lz4, zstd]
  -e, --encoding <ENCODING>
          Sets encoding for any column [possible values: plain, rle, bit-packed, delta-binary-packed, delta-length-byte-array, delta-byte-array, rle-dictionary]
      --data-pagesize-limit <DATA_PAGESIZE_LIMIT>
          Sets data page size limit
      --dictionary-pagesize-limit <DICTIONARY_PAGESIZE_LIMIT>
          Sets dictionary page size limit
      --write-batch-size <WRITE_BATCH_SIZE>
          Sets write batch size
      --max-row-group-size <MAX_ROW_GROUP_SIZE>
          Sets max size for a row group
      --created-by <CREATED_BY>
          Sets "created by" property
      --dictionary
          Sets flag to enable/disable dictionary encoding for any column
      --statistics <STATISTICS>
          Sets flag to enable/disable statistics for any column [possible values: none, chunk, page]
      --max-statistics-size <MAX_STATISTICS_SIZE>
          Sets max statistics size for any column. Applicable only if statistics are enabled
  -p, --print-schema
          Print the schema to stderr
  -n, --dry
          Only print the schema
  -h, --help
          Print help information
  -V, --version
          Print version information

The --schema-file option uses the same file format as --dry and --print-schema.

Examples

Convert a CSV to Parquet

csv2parquet data.csv data.parquet

Convert a CSV with no header to Parquet

csv2parquet --header false <CSV> <PARQUET>

Get the schema from a CSV with header

csv2parquet --header true --dry <CSV> <PARQUET>

Convert a CSV using schema-file to Parquet

Below is an example of the schema-file content:

{
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "col1",
      "data_type": "Utf8",
      "nullable": false,
      "dict_id": 0,
      "dict_is_ordered": false,
      "metadata": {}
    },
    {
      "name": " col2",
      "data_type": "Utf8",
      "nullable": false,
      "dict_id": 0,
      "dict_is_ordered": false,
      "metadata": {}
    }
  ],
  " metadata": {}
}

Then add the schema-file schema.json in the command:

csv2parquet --header false --schema-file schema.json <CSV> <PARQUET>