vaex VS minimal-pandas-api-for-polars

Compare vaex vs minimal-pandas-api-for-polars and see what are their differences.

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)

minimal-pandas-api-for-polars

pip install minimal-pandas-api-for-polars (by austospumanto)
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vaex minimal-pandas-api-for-polars
7 1
8,171 7
0.4% -
6.0 3.2
13 days ago over 2 years ago
Python Python
MIT License -
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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.

minimal-pandas-api-for-polars

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  • Polars: Lightning-fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2021
    https://github.com/austospumanto/minimal-pandas-api-for-pola...

    pip install minimal-pandas-api-for-polars

    I wrote a library that wraps polars DataFrame and Series objects to allow you to use them with the same syntax as with pandas DataFrame and Series objects. The goal is not to be a replacement for polars' objects and syntax, but rather to (1) Allow you to provide (wrapped) polars objects as arguments to existing functions in your codebase that expect pandas objects and (2) Allow you to continue writing code (especially EDA in notebooks) using the pandas syntax you know and (maybe) love while you're still learning the polars syntax, but with the underlying objects being all-polars. All methods of polars' objects are still available, allowing you to interweave pandas syntax and polars syntax when working with MppFrame and MppSeries objects.

    Furthermore, the goal should always be to transition away from this library over time, as the LazyFrame optimizations offered by polars can never be fully taken advantage of when using pandas-based syntax (as far as I can tell). In the meantime, the code in this library has allowed me to transition my company's pandas-centric code to polars-centric code more quickly, which has led to significant speedups and memory savings even without being able to take full advantage of polars' lazy evaluation. To be clear, these gains have been observed both when working in notebooks in development and when deployed in production API backends / data pipelines.

    I'm personally just adding methods to the MppFrame and MppSeries objects whenever I try to use pandas syntax and get AttributeErrors.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vaex and minimal-pandas-api-for-polars you can also consider the following projects:

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

dataframe-api - RFC document, tooling and other content related to the dataframe API standard

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

rust-dataframe - A Rust DataFrame implementation, built on Apache Arrow

dtplyr - Data table backend for dplyr

visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data

Datamancer - A dataframe library with a dplyr like API

umap - Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection

db-benchmark - reproducible benchmark of database-like ops

db-benchmark - reproducible benchmark of database-like ops

dataiter - Python classes for data manipulation