Why Polars rewrote its Arrow string data type

1. smartstring

   1 8 509 0.0 Rust

   Compact inlined strings for Rust.

   > “short string optimization”: A short enough string can be stored “in place” [...] An optimization that’s impossible in Rust, by the way ;).

   Author is not aware of https://docs.rs/compact_str/latest/compact_str/ or https://github.com/bodil/smartstring

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. awesome-tunneling

   2 121 16,299 8.0

   List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.

   

   I maintain a list[0] of tunneling software a la ngrok or Cloudflare Tunnel and open source alternatives. I'm considering entering the commercial market and offering a hosted solution.

   These services tend to have very low CPU/RAM requirements, but relatively high network usage. This led me to comparing network usage pricing across VPS providers.

   Somewhat ironically, Hetzer's pricing (20TB/mo for a $5 VPS) is so good that it makes me worried to build on them, because I could go from huge margins to losing money overnight if they ever raised them.

   [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

4. ShortStrings.jl

   3 1 25 - Julia

   A fast implementation of short strings of fixed size. Great for sorting and group-by operations

   

   For short strings, this is basically the same concept as ShortStrings.jl in julia

   https://github.com/JuliaString/ShortStrings.jl

5. polars

   4 149 31,419 10.0 Rust

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

   

   This is false. The polars api has used smart string for a long time.

   https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/blob/32a2325b55f9bce81d019...

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