Yup. It supports arrays of strings. https://docs.rs/arrow/6.2.0/arrow/array/type.LargeStringArray.html https://docs.rs/arrow/6.2.0/arrow/array/type.LargeString

Yup. It supports arrays of strings. https://docs.rs/arrow/6.2.0/arrow/array/type.LargeStringArray.html https://docs.rs/arrow/6.2.0/arrow/array/type.LargeStringArra... As for performance, YMMV but I think it could be faster since storing a list of strings as a numpy array would involve padding. Arrow arrays can get away without padding