Dask VS bcolz

Compare Dask vs bcolz and see what are their differences.

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Dask bcolz
32 1
11,965 955
1.3% -
9.7 0.0
6 days ago over 1 year ago
Python C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Dask

Posts with mentions or reviews of Dask. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-15.

bcolz

Posts with mentions or reviews of bcolz. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-13.
  • Recommendation for a Database for analysis
    5 projects | /r/algotrading | 13 May 2021
    What you need for your use case is a column-oriented store. I recommend explore bcolz or apache arrow for a column file-based systems. These are very fast, support memory mapping, uses compression and SSD speed (and even CPU architecture, in case of arrow) optimally almost out of the box, and has good interfaces to Numpy and Pandas (in case you are using Python for final data consumption and analysis). The columnar structure makes it easy to add or delete a column easily (or even dynamically). If you need a more scalable (albeit at the cost of speed) solution, you can devise a schema over a regular columnar db or an nosql db - see arctic from Man group for an example.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Dask and bcolz you can also consider the following projects:

Airflow - Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows

zipline - Zipline, a Pythonic Algorithmic Trading Library

Numba - NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM

Kedro - Kedro is a toolbox for production-ready data science. It uses software engineering best practices to help you create data engineering and data science pipelines that are reproducible, maintainable, and modular.

Pandas - Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

NetworkX - Network Analysis in Python

blaze - NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data

NumPy - The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.

Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython - IPython Parallel: Interactive Parallel Computing in Python