apache-arrow ☆

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Description:
Columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 22.0.0@1 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | @ApacheArrow | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: data-engineering big-data analytics library c-plus-plus

Install: brew install apache-arrow

About:
Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory data. It specifies a standardized, language-independent columnar memory format, organized for efficient analytic operations on modern hardware. Its primary value is eliminating serialization overhead and enabling zero-copy data sharing between different processing engines and languages.

Key Features:

Standardized columnar memory format
Zero-copy data sharing
Cross-language interoperability
High-performance analytics

Use Cases:

Accelerating data processing in analytics pipelines
Sharing large datasets between Python, Java, and C++ applications
Building high-performance data systems like database connectors and query engines

Alternatives:

Protocol Buffers – Protobuf is primarily for serialization, while Arrow focuses on in-memory, zero-copy analytics.
Parquet – Parquet is a columnar storage format, whereas Arrow is its in-memory counterpart for processing.

License: Apache-2.0

Dependencies: abseil, aws-crt-cpp, aws-sdk-cpp, brotli, grpc, llvm, lz4, openssl@3, protobuf, re2, snappy, thrift, utf8proc, zstd

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, sonoma, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 13, 2025 5:36pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	ecc4bf22
Nov 15, 2025 1:27am		10	VERSION_BUMP	a07bfdf2
Oct 21, 2025 1:08am		9	VERSION_BUMP	775c2ea8
Sep 16, 2025 12:17pm		7	VERSION_BUMP	4c74ccde
Sep 11, 2025 7:38pm		5	VERSION_BUMP	28b7109d
Jan 10, 2025 5:04am	12	6	VERSION_BUMP	1d97a41f
Sep 29, 2024 8:50am		7	VERSION_BUMP	88b01f95
Sep 29, 2024 2:43am		7	VERSION_BUMP	00bdf727
Sep 14, 2024 7:49am		4	VERSION_BUMP	d40a35bf