# shshemi/tabiew

A lightweight TUI application to view and query tabular data files, such as CSV, TSV, and parquet.

Repository: https://github.com/shshemi/tabiew
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tabiew
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T13:13:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 61
- inputs: {"age_days": 858, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 16, "gap_med": 31.5, "n_releases_24m": 21}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3089, forks 89 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:42.255260+00:00)

## What it is
Tabiew is a lightweight terminal user interface (TUI) application written in Rust for viewing and querying tabular data files such as CSV, TSV, Parquet, JSON, Arrow, SQLite, and Excel. It supports SQL queries, vim-style keybindings, fuzzy search, multi-table navigation, plotting, and hundreds of themes.

## Use cases
- view csv files in the terminal
- query parquet files with sql
- explore large tsv datasets from the command line
- inspect sqlite database tables in a tui
- preview excel spreadsheets without opening excel
- plot tabular data in the terminal
- fuzzy search rows in a data file

## When to choose
- you need a fast, keyboard-driven terminal tool to explore tabular files
- you want SQL querying over CSV/Parquet/JSON without loading a full database
- you prefer vim-style navigation and a lightweight alternative to spreadsheet apps

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI spreadsheet experience with mouse-driven editing
- you need to edit or write back to data files, not just view and query
- you work primarily with non-tabular data like images or free-form text

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: cli, data-visualization, search-engine, charts
- domain: data-science, developer-tools, files, analytics
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform, rust
- tags: tui, csv, parquet, sql, vim-keybindings, terminal, data-viewer, fuzzy-search, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- shshemi/tabiew (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:42.255260+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:46:29.336046+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/shshemi/tabiew (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:42.255260+00:00, sha 6a6cc4d3f5ed)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/tabiew (fetched 2026-08-29T09:42:38.424796+00:00, sha 59ad8c41b490)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.