polars VS vaex

Compare polars vs vaex and see what are their differences.

polars

Fast multi-threaded, hybrid-out-of-core query engine focussing on DataFrame front-ends (by ritchie46)

vaex

Out-of-Core hybrid Apache Arrow/NumPy DataFrame for Python, ML, visualization and exploration of big tabular data at a billion rows per second 🚀 (by vaexio)
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polars vaex
133 7
20,584 8,021
3.8% 0.5%
9.9 7.8
5 days ago about 1 month ago
Rust Python
MIT License MIT License
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polars

Posts with mentions or reviews of polars. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

vaex

Posts with mentions or reviews of vaex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-03.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing polars and vaex you can also consider the following projects:

modin - Modin: Scale your Pandas workflows by changing a single line of code

arrow-datafusion - Apache Arrow DataFusion SQL Query Engine

DataFrames.jl - In-memory tabular data in Julia

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

datatable - A Python package for manipulating 2-dimensional tabular data structures

db-benchmark - reproducible benchmark of database-like ops

rust-numpy - PyO3-based Rust bindings of the NumPy C-API

data.table - R's data.table package extends data.frame:

tidypolars - Tidy interface to polars

hdf5-rust - HDF5 for Rust

arrow2 - Transmute-free Rust library to work with the Arrow format

rust-csv - A CSV parser for Rust, with Serde support.