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		arjunnarayan on Feb 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apache Arrow 3.0 protobufs still get encoded and decoded by each client when loaded into memory. arrow is a little bit more like "flatbuffers, but designed for common data-intensive columnar access patterns"

hackcasual on Feb 3, 2021 | [–]

Arrow does actually use flatbuffers for metadata storage.

poorman on Feb 3, 2021 | | [–]

https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/format

hawk_ on Feb 3, 2021 | [–]

is that at the cost of the ability to do schema evolution?

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