gld-arrow-zig

gld-arrow-zig is an Apache Arrow serializer written in Zig 0.16. The codec and the code generator are Zig. They link neither libarrow, liblz4, nor libzstd.

• Why Arrow

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  What a record batch is, and why the schema travels with the buffers.

  Read Why Arrow

• Instructions

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  Build with Zig 0.16, encode a batch, generate Zig, and run the tests.

  Open Instructions

• Examples

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  A nullable integer batch, a generated struct, and an in-memory Flight exchange.

  See Examples

• Techniques

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  How IPC framing, compression, tensors, and the columnar arena are laid out.

  Read Techniques

• Test data

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  Streams, an IPC file, compression frames, and the schema used for codegen.

  Open Test data