Comment on Apache Arrow – Powering Columnar In-Memory AnalyticsComments−axman610yI'm confused, is this just Structure of Arrays as a service for columnar data? It's not clear to me what this actually does.−tveita10yIt's not really a service at all, it is a in-memory data format intended to be shareable between processes. The project also includes libraries for C++, Java and Python.This post explains the intention better than the project webpage:http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2016/02/introducing-apache-arr...
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I'm confused, is this just Structure of Arrays as a service for columnar data? It's not clear to me what this actually does.
It's not really a service at all, it is a in-memory data format intended to be shareable between processes. The project also includes libraries for C++, Java and Python.
This post explains the intention better than the project webpage:
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2016/02/introducing-apache-arr...