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title: "Eventual-Inc/Daft: Distributed DataFrame for Python designed for the cloud, powered by Rust"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/eventual-inc-daft-distributed-dataframe-for-python-designed-for-the-cloud-powered-by-rust-sre7xj0dl
source_url: https://github.com/Eventual-Inc/Daft
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-03-01T10:50:28.751Z
updated: 2026-06-04T02:14:13.606Z
tags: ["apache-arrow", "data-processing", "python", "rust"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Eventual-Inc/Daft: Distributed DataFrame for Python designed for the cloud, powered by Rust

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Daft is a distributed query engine for large-scale data processing in Python and is implemented in Rust. It provides a familiar interactive API, a powerful query optimizer, data catalog integrations, and support for multimodal types. Daft is built for the cloud and offers record-setting I/O performance for integrations with S3 cloud storage.

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