[arccy]

better compression https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2023/otel-arrow/

You don't do high performance without knowing the data schema.

[odie5533]

Is Arrow better than Parquet or Protobuf?

[theLiminator]

Arrow is an in-memory columnar format, kinda orthogonal to parquet (which is an at-rest format). Protobuf is a better comparison, but it's more message oriented and not suited for analytics.

[datadrivenangel]

Not having to write to disk is great, and zero-copy in memory access is instant...

[arccy]

the blog post comparison is against OTLP which is protobuf