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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Using Flight, choose your language!

All three of the languages we've been using in this book, Python, C++, and Go, provide implementations of Arrow Flight servers and clients. The examples we're going to walk through here are a great way to flex your chops on the different languages and see the similarities and differences between the different languages and the interfaces of their implementations. The Arrow project takes advantage of this interoperability between languages for Flight to run automated integration tests between the different language libraries and ensure that they are all compatible with each other.

So, let's get right down to it and have some fun!

Building a Python Flight Server

The flight module of the pyarrow library provides a base implementation of a Flight server; all that needs to be done is to override the functions for the desired Flight RPC methods you want to implement on your server, and away you go. Let's give it a shot and...