polars-dataframes

Fast in-memory DataFrame with lazy evaluation, parallel execution, Arrow backend. Use for tabular data in RAM (1–100 GB) when pandas is too slow. Expression API: select, filter, group_by, joins, pivots, window. Lazy mode enables predicate/projection pushdown. Reads CSV, Parquet, JSON, Excel, DBs, cloud. Larger-than-RAM: Dask; GPU: cuDF.

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