roapi VS ballista

Compare roapi vs ballista and see what are their differences.

ballista

Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust, and powered by Apache Arrow. (by ballista-compute)
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roapi ballista
24 20
3,030 2,238
1.1% -
6.9 9.3
7 days ago almost 3 years ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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roapi

Posts with mentions or reviews of roapi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.

ballista

Posts with mentions or reviews of ballista. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-16.
  • Open source contributions for a Data Engineer?
    17 projects | /r/dataengineering | 16 Apr 2021
    His newer project, Ballista, was also donated to Apache Arrow. I hope to get the Rust skills to collaborate with him on open source work someday too. He's also doing really cool work on spark-rapids FYI.
  • Best format to use for DataFrames in Rust and Python?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 16 Mar 2021
    https://github.com/ballista-compute/ballista/blob/main/rust/executor/src/flight_service.rs#L193-L228
  • I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2021
    I'm guessing Polars and Ballista (https://github.com/ballista-compute/ballista) have different goals, but I don't know enough about either to say what those might be. Does anyone know enough about either to explain the differences?
  • Introducing Kamu - World's first global collaborative data pipeline
    3 projects | /r/rust | 12 Mar 2021
    In your article you mention looking for a faster data engine, have you looked at Ballista https://github.com/ballista-compute/ballista? It’s pretty young but it uses the Apache Arrow memory model and the maintainer did a bunch of work on Apache Spark I believe.
  • Rust for DE?
    6 projects | /r/dataengineering | 11 Mar 2021
    https://github.com/ballista-compute/ballista is also a cool project worth checking out.
  • Julia: A Post-Mortem
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2021
    It’s mostly a personal favourite, but once Ballista [1] gets a bit more developed, I expect we’ll tear out our Java/Spark pipelines and replace them with that.

    The ML ecosystem in Rust is a bit underdeveloped at the moment, but work is ticking along on packages like Linfa and SmartCore, so maybe it’ll get there? In my field I’m mostly about it’s potential for correct, high-performance data pipelines that are straightforward to write in reasonable time, and hopefully a model-serving framework: I hate that so many of the current tools require annotating and shipping Python when really model-serving shouldn’t really need any Python code.

    [1] https://github.com/ballista-compute/ballista

  • Why isn't differential dataflow more popular?
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2021
    I've looked at this and thought it looked amazing, but also haven't used it for anything. Some thoughts...

    Rust is a blessing and curse. I seems like the obvious choice for data pipelines, but everything big currently exists in Java and the small stuff is in Javascript, Python or R. Maybe this will slowly change, but it's a big ship to turn. I'm hopeful that tools like this and Balista [1] will eventually get things moving.

    Since the Rust community is relatively small, language bindings would be very helpful. Being able to configure pipelines from Java or Typescript(!) would be great.

    Or maybe it's just that this form of computation is too foreign. By the time you need it, the project is so large that it's too late to redesign it to use it. I'm also unclear on how it would handle changing requirements and recomputing new aggregations over old data. Better docs with more convincing examples would be helpful here. The GitHub page showing counting isn't very compelling.

    [1] https://github.com/ballista-compute/ballista

  • Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust, using Apache Arrow
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

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php-parquet - PHP implementation for reading and writing Apache Parquet files/streams. NOTICE: Please migrate to https://github.com/codename-hub/php-parquet.

spark-rapids - Spark RAPIDS plugin - accelerate Apache Spark with GPUs

qframe - Immutable data frame for Go

materialize - The data warehouse for operational workloads.

delta-rs - A native Rust library for Delta Lake, with bindings into Python

fluvio - Lean and mean distributed stream processing system written in rust and web assembly.

datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

differential-dataflow - An implementation of differential dataflow using timely dataflow on Rust.

dagster - An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.

Prefect - The easiest way to build, run, and monitor data pipelines at scale.

odbc2parquet - A command line tool to query an ODBC data source and write the result into a parquet file.