apache-arrow
brew install apache-arrowColumnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data
License: Apache-2.0
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/apache-arrow.json
Formula code: apache-arrow.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 26.0.1 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Depends on:
| abseil | 20260817.0 | C++ Common Libraries |
| aws-crt-cpp | 0.44.3 | C++ wrapper around the aws-c-* libraries |
| aws-sdk-cpp | 1.11.927 | AWS SDK for C++ |
| brotli | 1.2.1 | Generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm by Google |
| grpc | 1.85.2 | Next generation open source RPC library and framework |
| llvm | 23.1.5 | Next-gen compiler infrastructure |
| lz4 | 1.11.1 | Extremely Fast Compression algorithm |
| openssl@4 | 4.1.0 | Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit |
| protobuf | 36.2 | Protocol buffers (Google's data interchange format) |
| re2 | 2025-11-05 | Alternative to backtracking PCRE-style regular expression engines |
| simdjson | 5.1.1 | SIMD-accelerated C++ JSON parser |
| snappy | 1.3.1 | Compression/decompression library aiming for high speed |
| thrift | 0.25.0 | Framework for scalable cross-language services development |
| uriparser | 1.0.3 | URI parsing library (strictly RFC 3986 compliant) |
| utf8proc | 2.12.0 | Clean C library for processing UTF-8 Unicode data |
| zstd | 1.5.7 | Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm |
Depends on when building from source:
| boost | 1.92.0 | Collection of portable C++ source libraries |
| cmake | 4.4.5 | Cross-platform make |
| gflags | 2.3.1 | Library for processing command-line flags |
| rapidjson | 1.1.0 | JSON parser/generator for C++ with SAX and DOM style APIs |
| xsimd | 14.3.0 | Modern, portable C++ wrappers for SIMD intrinsics |
Uses from macOS: python (build), bzip2
Binaries:
parquet-dump-arrow-statistics,
parquet-dump-footer,
parquet-dump-schema,
parquet-reader,
parquet-scan
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 84,469 |
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| Downloads | 3,588,159 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 7,007 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 12.1× |
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Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 7,002 | 18,706 | 101,818 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 5 | 8 | 48 |
| Installs on Request | 1,735 | 4,785 | 26,474 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 4 | 7 | 42 |
| Build Errors | 36 |