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Re:Polars by p4ul on Monday January 08, 2024 @07:46PM (#38920736)
Yes, that's totally fair; dataframes are more flexible in that sense.
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Re:Polars by p4ul on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:57PM (#38921690)
Oh, and another important difference is memory layout. The dataframe implementations mostly (or all) use column-major format. Whereas most conventional SQL implementations use row-major format, I believe.
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Re:Polars by theLiminator on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:16AM (#38923328)
I think most OLTP databases are row oriented whilst most OLAP are column.
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