Why “polars” is being discussed
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You can just use polars by leveraging write_ipc if you need arrow functionality. Pyarrow is great but it is very heavy.
by nojito · Oct 6, 2026
Pandas is better for slight in-place or per-row modifications, for loading from less conventional datasets, for transposition/more nuanced row-based aggregation/multi-…
by SukadarBukadar · Oct 6, 2026
In the issue, polars' creator says it is to reduce dependencies: I don't want polars to depend on on the datafusion crate, that is a complexity that is not needed.
by esafak · Oct 6, 2026
And with DuckDB? DuckDB is an in process OLAP, I’ve been using it a lot, and I am keen to use Polars but DuckDB seemings to be flying for me.
by zeristor · Oct 6, 2026
Polars does have an asof join so I guess the mapping hasn't been made yet from SQL. Could you open up an issue at https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/issu…
by orlp · Oct 6, 2026
From experience I'll say one thing that Polars doesn't have great interfacing with is doing things like string concatenation, like taking multiple columns and combining them in…
by gremlinunderway · Oct 6, 2026
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