You're reading from In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow Perform fast and efficient data analytics on both flat and hierarchical structured data

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071031

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Apache arrow

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Big Data

Author (1):

Matthew Topol

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Overview of What Arrow Is, its Capabilities, Benefits, and Goals

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Apache Arrow FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Working with Key Arrow Specifications

4. Chapter 3: Data Science with Apache Arrow

5. Section 2: Interoperability with Arrow: pandas, Parquet, Flight, and Datasets

6. Chapter 4: Format and Memory Handling

7. Chapter 5: Crossing the Language Barrier with the Arrow C Data API

8. Chapter 6: Leveraging the Arrow Compute APIs

9. Chapter 7: Using the Arrow Datasets API

10. Chapter 8: Exploring Apache Arrow Flight RPC

11. Section 3: Real-World Examples, Use Cases, and Future Development

12. Chapter 9: Powered by Apache Arrow

13. Chapter 10: How to Leave Your Mark on Arrow

14. Chapter 11: Future Development and Plans

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Preparing your first pull request

Apache Arrow is a big project. Really big. It's a large-scale project that includes many different languages, build systems, concepts, and interactions. This means that everyone who contributes will eventually be faced with stuff they will need to learn. You might have been writing C++ code for 10 years, but you might still need to ask basic questions about R or Ruby. Among the contributors to Arrow, you'll find experts, engineers, and data scientists, but there are also users, new engineers, and enthusiasts learning too!

The primary method of communication for looking for help with Arrow is either subscribing to the user or dev mailing lists or creating a GitHub issue. For more information about the mailing lists and instructions to subscribe to them, you can go to the Arrow website here: https://arrow.apache.org/community/. When it comes to tracking bugs, feature requests, and other tasks that need to be done, Arrow utilizes JIRA. If...