On: Apache Arrow: A new open source in-memory columnar...

[xtacy]

Nice initiative. Cheap serde and cross-language compatibility with an eye towards data scan intensive workloads is an important component!

Have you folks considered Supersonic engine from Google, which was designed with similar (but not as extensive as Arrow) goals in mind?

https://github.com/google/supersonic

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Do you have any experience with Supersonic? It appears to be abandoned (at least there's no activity on the mailing list as of 2014 - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/supersonic-query-eng...)