As a joke, I wrote an Ibis backend (https://github.com/cpcloud/ibish https://github.com/cpcloud/ibish) that processes expressions using shell commands strung to

As a joke, I wrote an Ibis backend (https://github.com/cpcloud/ibish https://github.com/cpcloud/ibish) that processes expressions using shell commands strung together with named pipes. It supports joins using the coreutils join command, projections, filters and some aggregations with awk. It's faster than pandas in some cases and folks should put it into production immediately!