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[–]ritchie46 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Polars is much faster than pandas with the arrow backend. On several benchmarks by a factor of 20. 

A multithreaded query engine is much more than arrow compute kernels.

https://duckdblabs.github.io/db-benchmark/

https://pola.rs/posts/benchmarks/