Hi all, Following a discussion on the arrow-dev list a few months ago [1], I spent some time over the past few months building the 'nanoarrow' library [2] with considerable contributions from David Li and others in the Arrow developer community. The focus of the library is producing and consuming Arrow C Data interface structures using a small (50 kb static library), vendorable (distributed as nanoarrow.h/nanoarrow.c) C library, with the primary target for development so far being Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) drivers.
For a more detailed look at the scope and usage of 'nanoarrow', I've prepared a blog post [3] (rendered at [4]) and preliminary API documentation for the C/C++ library [5][6] and R package [7]. For the purposes of getting feedback from the Arrow user community, I'd like to make an initial '0.1' release of the nanoarrow C library and R package in late January/early February. There have also been experiments with Python bindings and an IPC reader/writer but these may not be ready for the first release. I'd be grateful for any feedback - before or after the initial release - that users or developers have to offer! (Cross-posted in the user@ list as well [8]) -dewey [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/6vt7btpbrkm554otxqz7oxzdlpfwkhwc [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow-nanoarrow [3] https://github.com/apache/arrow-site/pull/288 [4] https://github.com/paleolimbot/arrow-site/blob/nanoarrow-intro-post/_posts/2022-12-14-nanoarrow.md [5] https://apache.github.io/arrow-nanoarrow/dev/c.html [6] https://apache.github.io/arrow-nanoarrow/dev/cpp.html [7] https://apache.github.io/arrow-nanoarrow/dev/r/index.html [8] https://lists.apache.org/thread/2qgm0zwl8nv2lv90ho4q1tqsl0oddqqy
