data sets. It is designed to both improve the performance of analytical algorithms and the efficiency of moving data from one system (or programming language to another).

A critical component of Apache Arrow is its in-memory columnar format, a standardized, language-agnostic specification for representing structured, table-like datasets in-memory. This data format has a rich data type system (included nested and user-defined data types) designed to support the needs of analytic database systems, data fra