PyArrow
Python library implementing Apache Arrow for efficient columnar data storage and processing.
ML and data science PyPI
Used in agent projects
60
0.5% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in ml and data science
#10 of 28
by use in those projects
Downloads
92.6M
PyPI, last 7 days, pyarrow
GitHub stars
17.2K
last push Oct 9, 2026
How PyArrow is used
PyArrow is a dependency in 60 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.5%), #10 of 28 in ml and data science. The most used alternative there is NumPy. Projects that use it most often also use pandas (81.7%), NumPy (76.7%), Pydantic (60.0%).
Often used with PyArrow
| pandas | 81.7% of PyArrow projects · 27.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| NumPy | 76.7% of PyArrow projects · 20.0× more than average |
| Pydantic | 60.0% of PyArrow projects · 11.7× more than average |
| Requests | 56.7% of PyArrow projects · 10.7× more than average |
| PyYAML | 51.7% of PyArrow projects · 17.0× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 48.3% of PyArrow projects · 7.4× more than average |
| python-dateutil | 46.7% of PyArrow projects · 35.9× more than average |
| tqdm | 45.0% of PyArrow projects · 40.5× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| Devin Desktop | 1.8% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list PyArrow as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install pyarrow |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (58), Next.js (1), .NET (1) |
| Example projects | napjon/krisk, kr8tiv-ai/Jarvis, RoboFinSystems/robosystems, eduardocornelsen/full-funnel-ai-analytics, touyi/solana-onchain-arbitrage-bot-contract |
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