Specifications and Protocols

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• Format Versioning and Stability
  • Backward Compatibility
  • Forward Compatibility
  • Long-Term Stability
  • Pre-1.0.0 Versions
• Arrow Columnar Format
  • Terminology
  • Physical Memory Layout
  • Logical Types
  • Serialization and Interprocess Communication (IPC)
  • Implementation guidelines
• Arrow Flight RPC
  • RPC Methods
  • Authentication
  • Error Handling
  • External Resources
  • Protocol Buffer Definitions
• Integration Testing
  • Running integration tests
  • JSON test data format
• The Arrow C data interface
  • Rationale
  • Data type description – format strings
  • Structure definitions
  • Example use case
  • C producer examples
  • Why two distinct structures?
  • Updating this specification
  • Inspiration
• The Arrow C stream interface
  • Semantics
  • Structure definition
  • C consumer example
• Other Data Structures
  • Tensor (Multi-dimensional Array)
  • Sparse Tensor

Apache Arrow Format Versioning and Stability