[ARROW-750] [Format] Add LargeBinary and LargeString types

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Component/s: C++, Format
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16366
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 01/Apr/17 13:56
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:10
• Resolved: 30/Jul/19 07:11

Description

These are string and binary types that use 64-bit offsets. Java will not need to implement these types for the time being, but they are needed when representing very large datasets in C++

Issue Links

• is related to: ARROW-4810 [Format][C++] Add "LargeList" type with 64-bit offsets
• is required by: ARROW-6000 [Python] Expose LargeBinaryType and LargeStringType
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4919
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4921