Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Overview of What Arrow is, Its Capabilities, Benefits, and Goals
1
Getting Started with Apache Arrow
Technical requirements
Understanding the Arrow format and specifications
Why does Arrow use a columnar in-memory format?
Learning the terminology and physical memory layout
Quick summary of physical layouts, or TL;DR
How to speak Arrow
Arrow format versioning and stability
Would you download a library? Of course!
Setting up your shooting range
Using PyArrow for Python
C++ for the 1337 coders
Go, Arrow, go!
Summary
References
2
Working with Key Arrow Specifications
Technical requirements
Playing with data, wherever it might be!
Working with Arrow tables
Accessing data files with PyArrow
Accessing data files with ...
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