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Re:Apache Arrow 3.0 by hodgesrm on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @11:11PM (#26022481)
What are the use cases where multi-dimensional arrays are important and why?
Re:Apache Arrow 3.0 by phillc73 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:03AM (#26023894)
Astronomy, seismology, microscopy.

There's an interesting query language, SciQL[1], built to support such use cases. It can be used with MonetDB.[2]

[1] https://projects.cwi.nl/scilens/Resources/SciQL.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaMo3oGTstY

Re:Apache Arrow 3.0 by nomel on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:13PM (#26073069)
R&D/manufacturing of consumer facing sensors, in my case.