<s>
Apache	B-Application
Arrow	I-Application
is	O
a	O
language-agnostic	O
software	B-Architecture
framework	I-Architecture
for	O
developing	O
data	O
analytics	O
applications	O
that	O
process	O
columnar	B-General_Concept
data	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
contains	O
a	O
standardized	O
column-oriented	O
memory	O
format	O
that	O
is	O
able	O
to	O
represent	O
flat	O
and	O
hierarchical	O
data	O
for	O
efficient	O
analytic	O
operations	O
on	O
modern	O
CPU	B-Device
and	O
GPU	B-Architecture
hardware	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Arrow	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
with	O
Apache	B-General_Concept
Parquet	I-General_Concept
,	O
Apache	B-Language
Spark	I-Language
,	O
NumPy	B-Application
,	O
PySpark	B-Language
,	O
pandas	B-Application
and	O
other	O
data	O
processing	O
libraries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
includes	O
native	O
software	B-Library
libraries	I-Library
written	O
in	O
C	B-Language
,	O
C++	B-Language
,	O
C#	B-Application
,	O
Go	B-Application
,	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
JavaScript	B-Language
,	O
Julia	O
,	O
MATLAB	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
R	B-Language
,	O
Ruby	B-Language
,	O
and	O
Rust	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Apache	B-General_Concept
Parquet	I-General_Concept
and	O
Apache	B-General_Concept
ORC	I-General_Concept
are	O
popular	O
examples	O
of	O
on-disk	O
columnar	B-General_Concept
data	I-General_Concept
formats	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Apache	B-Application
Arrow	I-Application
was	O
announced	O
by	O
The	O
Apache	O
Software	O
Foundation	O
on	O
February	O
17	O
,	O
2016	O
,	O
with	O
development	O
led	O
by	O
a	O
coalition	O
of	O
developers	O
from	O
other	O
open	O
source	O
data	O
analytics	O
projects	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
initial	O
codebase	O
and	O
Java	B-Language
library	O
was	O
seeded	O
by	O
code	O
from	O
Apache	B-General_Concept
Drill	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
