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DataFrame Implementations in Python

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

Alternatives to pandas for Small Data

  1. Polars is a blazingly fast DataFrames library implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow as memory model. It is the best replacement of pandas for small data at this time. Notice that Polars support multithreading and lazy computation but it cannot handle data larger than memory at this time.

Tips on Vaex

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!