feather

Convert Pandas DataFrame to & from In-Memory Feather Question: Using the IO tools in pandas it is possible to convert a DataFrame to an in-memory feather buffer: import pandas as pd from io import BytesIO df = pd.DataFrame({‘a’: [1,2], ‘b’: [3.0,4.0]}) buf = BytesIO() df.to_feather(buf) However, using the same buffer to convert back to a …

What are the differences between feather and parquet? Question: Both are columnar (disk-)storage formats for use in data analysis systems. Both are integrated within Apache Arrow (pyarrow package for python) and are designed to correspond with Arrow as a columnar in-memory analytics layer. How do both formats differ? Should you always prefer feather when working …