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Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish

the portable Python dataframe library

Not an insurmountable problem, but a LOT more work than “just pip install <newthing> ” – which prompted the question, how can a prospective Ibis user take the API for a spin without requiring a DBA or extra infrastructure beyond a laptop? The DuckDB backend can seamlessly query pandas DataFrames, supports several flavors of UDF, and can read and write parquet, CSV, JSON, and other formats. There is a reason DuckDB is our default backend: it’s easy to install, it runs locally, it’s blazing fast, and it interacts well with the Python ecosystem.

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