InData ArkaivebyAIExplore369·1d agoA Polars GPU Engine for Apple Silicon, Now on M1 Macs Too: ArrowMetal 0.6.1On the evening of 2 November, issue #1 was opened on ArrowMetal. The reporter was on an M1 Max, and every sort of 64-bit keys failed to…
InStackademicbySaad Ahmed·4d agoPython Isn’t Losing Data Science. It’s Losing the Work It Was Never Built to Do.Python still dominates the data science workflow. But the engines doing the heavy lifting are changing, and that has important consequences…
Ascendrix Technologies·4d agoIs Polars 2.0 Actually Faster Than 1.x? What the Benchmarks Show, and How to Test Your Own WorkloadWhen Polars 2.0 was released on October 6, 2026, the headline numbers were impressive: on TPC-H and TPC-DS-style benchmarks, Polars beat…A response icon1A response icon1
InCodeToDeploybyDima from Mithridata·Nov 1Stop Using Pandas for Every Data Problem in PythonThere is a familiar ritual in Python data analysis.A response icon2A response icon2
InTowards Data EngineeringbyDr.Michael·Oct 31I Compared DuckDB, Polars, and Apache Spark Using the Same 500 GB DatasetI designed an experiment covering CSV and Parquet ingestion, filtering, joins, aggregations, and data transformations. I measured execution…A response icon2A response icon2
Nandan Priyadarshi·Oct 26Polars 2.0 vs pandas vs DuckDB: 2 GB CSV, 4 GB Memory LimitNine ways to read one file, three runs each, and which ones finished before the watchdog killed them.A response icon1A response icon1
InPython in Plain EnglishbyThe Python Lab·Oct 15“From Eager to Lazy: How Polars Query Optimization Delivers a 27x Speedup on Multi-Million Row Logs”
Andy.G·Oct 13Polars 2.0 Is Out.On October 6, Polars made the streaming engine the default for lazy queries, and joins stopped promising to keep your row order. Here is…A response icon1A response icon1
Robert Broeckelmann·Oct 12Oso and Polar — Because Authorization Is Still Application LogicThere is a particular stage in every software project where it is announced that we just need to check whether the user is allowed to do…A response icon1A response icon1
Ascendrix Technologies·Oct 9Polars 2.0 Is Out: Streaming by Default, First-Class SQL, and the Changes That Could Break Your…Polars, the fast DataFrame library that many data scientists now use instead of pandas, released version 2.0 on October 6, 2026.A response icon1A response icon1
