“Convert the PARQUET files in my Downloads folder to ARROW”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i file.parquet -c "convert to arrow"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert PARQUET to ARROW?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.parquet -c "convert to arrow" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
A Parquet file is a columnar data table: each column is stored on its own, compressed and typed, so analytics tools can read only the columns they need. It is the common exchange format of data lakes, Spark, pandas and DuckDB.
An Arrow IPC file holds a data table in Apache Arrow's in-memory columnar layout, so it can be memory-mapped and read without conversion. Feather version 2 files are the same format.