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by odie5533 397 days ago
Is Arrow better than Parquet or Protobuf?
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theLiminator 397 days ago
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.
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datadrivenangel 397 days ago
Not having to write to disk is great, and zero-copy in memory access is instant...
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arccy 397 days ago
the blog post comparison is against OTLP which is protobuf
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