Extension types for the sparrow library

sparrow-extensions provides additional array types and extension implementations for the sparrow library, following the Apache Arrow Canonical Extensions specification.

sparrow-extensions requires a modern C++ compiler supporting C++20.

• uuid_array: Arrow-compatible array for storing UUID values as 16-byte fixed-width binary according to the arrow.uuid extension type specification.
• json_array: Arrow-compatible array for storing JSON values as UTF-8 strings according to the arrow.json extension type specification.
• bool8_array: Arrow-compatible array for storing boolean values as 8-bit integers according to the arrow.bool8 extension type specification.
• fixed_shape_tensor_array: Arrow-compatible array for storing fixed-shape tensors according to the arrow.fixed_shape_tensor extension type specification.

sparrow-extensions has a few dependencies that you can install in a mamba environment:

mamba env create -f environment-dev.yml
mamba activate sparrow-extensions

You can then create a build directory, and build the project and install it with cmake:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$CONDA_PREFIX \
    -DSPARROW_EXTENSIONS_BUILD_TESTS=ON
make install

Compilers:

• Clang 18 or higher
• GCC 11.2 or higher
• Apple Clang 16 or higher
• MSVC 19.41 or higher

• sparrow - C++20 implementation of the Apache Arrow Columnar Format

This software is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.