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Apache Arrow is the universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics

33 mentions on Hacker News by 29 people: 2 stories, 31 comments · first 2016-02-17 · latest 2026-02-17

Mentions per year 33 mentions · busiest year 2021 (7)
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  1. …I thought a colleague of mine had filed an issue but I didn’t find it. I filed it myself just now: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/49310
    comment by kccqzy · 2026-02-17 · in Apache Arrow is 10 years old
  2. ▲ 2
    New Parquet writer allows easy insert/delete/edit
    story by sps44 · 2025-05-19 · 0 comments
  3. …: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aapache%2Farrow+async+lang... : test_flight_async.py https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/python/pyarrow/tes... pyarrow/src/arrow/python/async.h: https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/python/pyar…
  4. …to enable passing statistics, and the DuckDB devs are working to implement this. Discussion at https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/38837 .
  5. https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/34738 https://lists.apache.org/thread/lk277x3b9gjol42sjg27bst2ggm5...
  6. …- after browsing how arrow is implemented for different languages (my experience is mainly C/C++) - https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/main/go/arrow/math - there are bunch of .S ("asm" files) and I'm still not able to comprehend how…
  7. …: > Apache Arrow already supports C, C++, Python, Rust, Go and has C GLib support Lua: https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/main/c_glib/example/lua LearnXinYminutes Lua: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/ OpenWRT is a Make-based Linux…
  8. …application. Apache Arrow already supports C, C++, Python, Rust, Go and has C GLib support Lua: https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/main/c_glib/example/lua : > Arrow Lua example: All example codes use LGI to use Arrow GLib based bindings…
    comment by westurner · 2023-11-01 · in Cave: A downloadable game engine for windows
  9. The CSV parser for [Perspective]( https://github.com/finos/perspective ) uses the [Apache Arrow]( https://github.com/apache/arrow ) C++ CSV parser compiled to WASM. It's not currently multi-threaded but this is possible as well to my…
    comment by texodus · 2023-09-07 · in Show HN: uDSV.js – A faster CSV parser
  10. Worker should really adopt Apache Arrow, which has a much bigger ecosystem. https://github.com/apache/arrow
    comment by vicaya · 2023-07-28 · in Cap'n Proto 1.0
  11. …[1] https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.csv.R... [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/python/pyarrow/_...
    comment by hfbff · 2023-02-11 · in Google Python Style Guide
  12. …parallelism or partitioning). Hope that helps. [1]: https://arrow.apache.org/cookbook/ [2]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-cookbook/ [3]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12254
  13. …the sort of thing where you could just add a plugin to postgres and be arrowified or something? [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/release-7.0.0/java/flig...
  14. …[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/67911190/881025 [2] https://github.com/apache/parquet-cpp [3] https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/cpp
  15. …validate method implemented). Case study - Apache Arrow uses flatbuffers to persist its metadata: https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/format
    comment by liuliu · 2021-07-23 · in Zip – How not to design a file format
  16. …in a break from the mono-repo model. Read more at the announcement[3] or the merge request[4]. [0] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs [2] https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2021/05/04/rust-dev-workf…
    comment by michael_j_ward · 2021-05-05 · in Apache Arrow 4.0
  17. Great to see Ballista in arrow https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9723
    comment by phissenschaft · 2021-05-05 · in Apache Arrow 4.0
  18. ▲ 2
    Ballista, distributed compute in Rust, merged into Apache Arrow
    story by wdavidw · 2021-03-26 · 0 comments
  19. https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/format
    comment by poorman · 2021-02-03 · in Apache Arrow 3.0
  20. …bit lacking at the moment). [1] https://arrow.apache.org/docs/cpp/api/tensor.html?highlight=... [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/python/pyarrow/t...
    comment by mihevc · 2021-01-01 · in Sparse Matrices (2019)
  21. …rather active Apache Arrow project. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53533506/what-is-the-dif... https://github.com/apache/arrow/commit/e6905effbb9383afd2423... And the platform/tools side of Drill now lives on as Dremio, which uses…
    comment by vhold · 2020-05-20 · in Apache Drill's Future
  22. It's using the Rust native arrow library, from the DataFusion project. So nope, pure rust. https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/rust/arrow
    comment by jamwt · 2020-04-06 · in Rust Dataframe: Update 1
  23. https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/format Are your in-memory formatted structures. Even better, there are libraries in many languages for accessing them. As such you can consider the data almost as an ffi between languages.…
  24. …ownership of the memory returned by gRPC to obtain zero copy. The C++ details are found in https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/src/arrow/fl...
  25. How about Dask - which is fairly production grade and has experimental Arrow integration. https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/integration/dask... Dask deploys pretty well on k8s - https://kubernetes.dask.org/en/latest/
  26. …regularly, with types—and library support for multiple languages. Never used it, myself, though. https://github.com/apache/arrow
  27. …of JS versions of Arrow for, I believe, showing a bunch more in the browser than you normally see: https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/js . The Graphistry team has collaborating on the Apache side as part of how we pull off…
    comment by lmeyerov · 2018-06-25 · in What is GeoMesa?
  28. …the full & accelerated pydata world to JavaScript. We started with Arrow columnar data bindings ( https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/js ). Next stop is Plasma bindings in node for zero-copy node<>pydata interop. That enables…
    comment by lmeyerov · 2018-03-03 · in Pandas on Ray – Make Pandas faster
  29. …For comparison, dplyr and arrow: https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/tree/master/src https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/cpp/src/arrow C++ does seem to be useful for stuff like this.
  30. …opening to others, but we've been investing big on Arrow for our V2. Ex: We recently released https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/js and are generally using Arrow as a way to compose interactive-time columnar CPU/GPU visual…
  31. I usually watch the Apache projects. Apache Arrow ( https://github.com/apache/arrow/ ) is very interesting and promising project. It is in early state; you can watch the design decisions taken and how they are implemented. Plus it is…
  32. Where are the API docs? this seem rather useless: https://github.com/apache/arrow
  33. …was live when the press announcements went out. The Github mirror is now live, you can see it here: https://github.com/apache/arrow