TLDR: The zero-copy integration between DuckDB and Apache Arrow allows for rapid analysis of larger than memory datasets in Python and R using either SQL or relational APIs. This post is a collaboration with and cross-posted on the DuckDB blog. Part of Apache Arrow is an in-memory data format optimized for analytical libraries. Like Pandas and R Dataframes, it uses a columnar data model. But the Arrow project contains more than just the format: The Arrow C++ library, which is accessible in Py...
