westonpace commented on PR #36027:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/36027#issuecomment-1591730219

   I'll repeat what the rest said about engine/format differences and maybe 
offer some clarification.
   
   In C++ the picture is pretty clear, as the APIs tend to be focused on 
implementation:
   
   There is a C++ parquet module which is purely a parquet reader.
   There is a C++ datasets library which, using Acero, offers a lot of features 
on top of this
   
   In pyarrow the picture is pretty muddled, as the APIs are more focused on 
user experience:
   
   There is a pyarrow.parquet module, however, many of its features are powered 
by C++ datasets.  For example, the pyarrow.parquet module can read from S3 even 
the the C++ parquet module has no concept of S3 (it just has an abstraction for 
input streams).
   
   So I agree with the others that we should probably not base the features on 
the python API.


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