Best Practices for Leveraging the Apache Arrow Ecosystem
Session date: Aug 15, 2023 08:00am (Pacific Time)
Apache Arrow is an open source project intended to provide a standardized columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data. It enables more efficient analytics workloads for modern CPU and GPU hardware, which makes working with large data sets easier and cheaper.
InfluxData and Dremio are both members of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Dremio is a data lakehouse management service known for its scalability and capacity for direct querying across diverse data sources. InfluxDB is the purpose-built time series database, and InfluxDB 3.0 has a new columnar storage engine and uses the Arrow format for representing data and moving data to and from Parquet. Discover how InfluxDB and Dremio have advanced their solutions by relying on the Apache Arrow framework.
Join this live panel as Alex Merced and Anais Dotis-Georgiou dive into:
- Advantages to utilizing the Apache Arrow ecosystem
- Tips and tricks for implementing the columnar data structure
- How developers can best utilize the ASF to innovate and contribute to new industry standards
Alex Merced
Developer Advocate, Dremio
Alex Merced is a Developer Advocate for Dremio, a developer, and a seasoned instructor with a rich professional background. He has worked with companies like GenEd Systems, Crossfield Digital, CampusGuard, and General Assembly. Alex is a co-author of the O'Reilly Book "Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide." With a deep understanding of the subject matter, Alex has shared his insights as a speaker at events including Data Day Texas, OSA Con, P99Conf and Data Council.
Driven by a profound passion for technology, Alex has been instrumental in disseminating his knowledge through various platforms. His tech content can be found in blogs, videos, and his podcasts, Datanation and Web Dev 101. Moreover, Alex Merced has made contributions to the JavaScript and Python communities by developing a range of libraries. Notable examples include SencilloDB, CoquitoJS, and dremio-simple-query, among others.
Anais Dotis-Georgiou
Developer Advocate, InfluxData
Anais Dotis-Georgiou is a Developer Advocate for InfluxData with a passion for making data beautiful with the use of Data Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning. She takes the data that she collects, does a mix of research, exploration, and engineering to translate the data into something of function, value, and beauty. When she is not behind a screen, you can find her outside drawing, stretching, boarding, or chasing after a soccer ball.