arrow2 VS arrow-rs

Compare arrow2 vs arrow-rs and see what are their differences.

arrow2

Transmute-free Rust library to work with the Arrow format (by jorgecarleitao)

arrow-rs

Official Rust implementation of Apache Arrow (by apache)
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arrow2 arrow-rs
25 16
1,071 2,123
- 4.8%
0.0 9.8
about 1 month ago 3 days ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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arrow2

Posts with mentions or reviews of arrow2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-03.

arrow-rs

Posts with mentions or reviews of arrow-rs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-13.
  • Rkyv: Rkyv zero-copy deserialization framework for rust
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2024
    https://github.com/djkoloski/rust_serialization_benchmark

    Apache/arrow-rs: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs

    From https://arrow.apache.org/faq/ :

    > How does Arrow relate to Flatbuffers?

    > Flatbuffers is a low-level building block for binary data serialization. It is not adapted to the representation of large, structured, homogenous data, and does not sit at the right abstraction layer for data analysis tasks.

    > Arrow is a data layer aimed directly at the needs of data analysis, providing a comprehensive collection of data types required to analytics, built-in support for “null” values (representing missing data), and an expanding toolbox of I/O and computing facilities.

    > The Arrow file format does use Flatbuffers under the hood to serialize schemas and other metadata needed to implement the Arrow binary IPC protocol, but the Arrow data format uses its own representation for optimal access and computation

  • Polars: Company Formation Announcement
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2023
    One of the interesting components of Polars that I've been watching is the use of the Apache Arrow memory format, which is a standard layout for data in memory that enables processing (querying, iterating, calculating, etc) in a language agnostic way, in particular without having to copy/convert it into the local object format first. This enables cross-language data access by mmaping or transferring a single buffer, with zero [de]serialization overhead.

    For some history, there's has been a bit of contention between the official arrow-rs implementation and the arrow2 implementation created by the polars team which includes some extra features that they find important. I think the current status is that everyone agrees that having two crates that implement the same standard is not ideal, and they are working to port any necessary features to the arrow-rs crate and plan on eventually switching to it and deprecating arrow2. But that's not easy.

    https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/1176

    https://github.com/jorgecarleitao/arrow2/pull/1476

  • The state of Apache Avro in Rust
    3 projects | /r/rust | 17 Apr 2023
    From what I've seen, most of the Rust community seems to be adopting Apache Arrow as the go-to for data processing. It has strong community support and good interoperability with many cross-language tools. It is natively a columnar format. If row-oriented is a must for your use case, consider looking into alternatives like gRPC that might better suit your needs.
    3 projects | /r/rust | 17 Apr 2023
  • Apache Arrow Feature Parity Timeline?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 21 Feb 2022
    That matrix doesn't seem up to date. For example looking at the rust crate it does seem to support things like map, float16, and IPC. The changelog shows an impressive development pace.
  • Apache Arrow Flight SQL: Accelerating Database Access
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2022
    Oh, and for anyone interested in pitching in on the Rust implementation, there's an issue logged here along with some discussion: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/1323
  • Arrow2 0.9 has been released
    6 projects | /r/rust | 14 Jan 2022
    Deeply nested parquet support would be nice. Even the official implementation lack this. https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/993
    6 projects | /r/rust | 14 Jan 2022
    I'm still not sure how this differs from https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs. What does transmute even mean?
  • A SQL Database
    3 projects | /r/rust | 31 Jul 2021
    Cool! You may want to take a look at the Apache Arrow, rust project and datafusion: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs and https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion
  • Nushell 0.34 released - the first release with dataframe support
    3 projects | /r/rust | 14 Jul 2021
    Congrats team and great work @elferherrera! Note that this backed by Polars and Arrow, and is as fast as it gets. :)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing arrow2 and arrow-rs you can also consider the following projects:

polars - Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust

Apache Arrow - Apache Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing

arrow-datafusion - Apache Arrow DataFusion SQL Query Engine

db-benchmark - reproducible benchmark of database-like ops

pyodide - Pyodide is a Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly

explorer - Series (one-dimensional) and dataframes (two-dimensional) for fast and elegant data exploration in Elixir

datafuse - An elastic and reliable Cloud Warehouse, offers Blazing Fast Query and combines Elasticity, Simplicity, Low cost of the Cloud, built to make the Data Cloud easy [Moved to: https://github.com/datafuselabs/databend]

parquet2 - Fastest and safest Rust implementation of parquet. `unsafe` free. Integration-tested against pyarrow

explorer - An open source block explorer

byo-sql - An in-memory SQL database in Rust.