What is Apache Arrow? Erasing the Serialization Tax
Alex Merced
Read the complete Open Source and the Lakehouse series: Part 1: Apache Software Foundation: History, Purpose, and Process Part 2: What is Apache Parquet? Part 3: What is Apache Iceberg? Part 4: What is Apache Polaris? Part 5: What is Apache Arrow? Part 6: Assembling the Apache Lakehouse Part 7: Agentic Analytics on the Apache Lakehouse If you pull a million records from a database into a Python notebook, the query runs instantly, but the transfer feels endlessly slow. Your compute engine wastes