Apache Arrow aims to accelerate analytical workloads

The lead developers of 13 major open source projects, along with the Project Management Committee (PMC) chairs of seven Apache Software Foundation projects, came together today to announce a new top-level Apache project that promises to dramatically improve the performance of analytical workloads.While most new Apache efforts spend several years gaining steam as Apache Incubator projects before they become fully fledged projects, the new Apache Arrow is hitting the ground running as a top-level