Apache Arrow Java API Documentation [closed]

Question

I am looking for useful documentations or examples for the Apache Arrow API. Can anyone point to some useful resources? I was only able to find some blogs and JAVA documentation (which doesn't say much).

From what I read, it is a standard in-memory columnar database for fast analytics. Is it possible to load the data to arrow memory and to manipulate it ?

Answer 1

You should use arrow as a middle man between two applications which need to communicate using passing objects.

Arrow isn’t a standalone piece of software but rather a component used to accelerate analytics within a particular system and to allow Arrow-enabled systems to exchange data with low overhead.

For example Arrow improves the performance for data movement within a cluster.

See tests for examples.

  @Test
  public void test() throws Exception {
    BufferAllocator allocator = new RootAllocator(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
    File testInFile = testFolder.newFile("testIn.arrow");
    File testOutFile = testFolder.newFile("testOut.arrow");

    writeInput(testInFile, allocator);

    String[] args = {"-i", testInFile.getAbsolutePath(), "-o", testOutFile.getAbsolutePath()};
    int result = new FileRoundtrip(System.out, System.err).run(args);
    assertEquals(0, result);

    validateOutput(testOutFile, allocator);
}

Also Apache Parquet uses it. There are conversion examples from/to arrow objects:

MessageType parquet = converter.fromArrow(allTypesArrowSchema).getParquetSchema();

Schema arrow = converter.fromParquet(supportedTypesParquetSchema).getArrowSchema();