Overview
View SourceThe main overview, installation, quick start, and usage examples live in the README on GitHub.
This doc set covers:
| Topic | Guide |
|---|---|
| Handles, copying, NIF scheduling | Memory model |
| IPC stream and file read/write | IPC guide |
| Arrow Flight client and server | Flight guide |
| Arrow Flight SQL remote query client | Flight SQL guide |
| ADBC database connectivity | ADBC guide |
| Parquet read and write | Parquet guide |
| Compute kernels (filter, project, sort) | Compute guide |
| C Data Interface (CDI) | CDI guide |
| Nx tensor bridge | Nx guide |
| Benchmarks and CI publishing | Benchmarks guide |
Optional integrations
| Module | Requires | What it does |
|---|---|---|
ExArrow.FlightSQL.Client | (none — built-in) | Connect to Arrow Flight SQL servers; query, stream, DML, prepared statements, metadata |
ExArrow.FlightSQL.Result | (none — built-in) | Materialised Flight SQL result with to_dataframe/1 and to_tensor/2 |
ExArrow.Explorer | {:explorer, "~> 0.11"} | Convert between ExArrow.Stream/RecordBatch and Explorer.DataFrame |
ExArrow.Nx | {:nx, "~> 0.9"} | Convert numeric Arrow columns to/from Nx.Tensor; build multi-column batches from a tensor map |
ExArrow.CDI | (none — built-in) | Zero-copy Arrow C Data Interface: export/import record batches as raw C struct pointers |
ExArrow.ADBC.ConnectionPool | {:nimble_pool, "~> 1.1"} | NimblePool-backed connection pool for ADBC databases |
:adbc_package backend | {:adbc, "~> 0.9"} + {:explorer, "~> 0.11"} | Supervised pure-Elixir ADBC backend; Database.open(:adbc_package) |
| ADBC driver download | {:adbc, "~> 0.9"} | ExArrow.ADBC.DriverHelper.ensure_driver_and_open/2 |