Future Development and Plans
There’s quite a lot of development still going on in the Arrow libraries and utilities. Aside from updating and improving the libraries as they currently stand, multiple efforts are operating simultaneously to build community tools by utilizing Apache Arrow. Sometimes, this results in new protocols and technologies; other times, it results in entirely new libraries and software. Given the size of the developer community surrounding Arrow, it’s no surprise that there’s plenty of development occurring with new things in the works.
This chapter’s goal is to get you excited about the development plans and projects that are in the works at the time of writing. Hopefully, the following aspects will intrigue you:
- Geospatial data is an extremely important subset of data science work. This is why the community continues to work on GeoArrow and GeoParquet specifications.
- By collaborating with projects such as DuckDB, Velox...
