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Is Arrow better than Parquet or Protobuf?

• theLiminator 1y 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.
• datadrivenangel 1y ago
  Not having to write to disk is great, and zero-copy in memory access is instant...
• arccy 1y ago
  the blog post comparison is against OTLP which is protobuf