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Introduction to Apache Arrow with Rust

This article gives an overview of Apache Arrow. The focus is introducing the library and exploring its primary use cases. Important features are explored at a high level, and code samples are used to provide examples.

Publication

This article has been publised in Level Up Coding

Outline

What is Apache Arrow?

• Description of the Arrow Project
• In-memory columnar format
• Language-agnostic specification

Rust Implmentation

Low Level Arrays

• What are arrays?
• Initializing arrays
• Array builders

High Level Constructs

• Field
• Schema
• RecordBatch

Data Readers

• CSV Reader

Compute Kernels

• Filter
• Sort
• Group By