[ARROW-9742] [Rust] Create one standard DataFrame API

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Rust
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25794
• Assignee: Andy Grove
• Reporter: Andy Grove
• Created: 14/Aug/20 14:02
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:08
• Resolved: 16/Aug/20 16:21

Description

 There was a discussion in last Arrow sync call about the fact that there are numerous Rust DataFrame projects and it would be good to have one standard, in the Arrow repo.

I do think it would be good to have a DataFrame trait in Arrow, with an implementation in DataFusion, and making it possible for other projects to extend/replace the implementation e.g. for distributed compute, or for GPU compute, as two examples. 

jhorstmann Does this capture what you were suggesting in the call?

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7972