request for polars package

ritchie46 commented 1 year ago

Checklist

[X] I added a descriptive title (including the requested package name, version, and platform).
[X] I searched the defaults channels (Python and R) and did not find the package I'm requesting.
[X] I searched through existing issues and did not find a duplicate request for this package.

Request type

[X] New (i.e. no versions of this package currently exist on repo.anaconda.com)
[ ] Update (i.e. older versions of this package exist and I'm requesting an updated version)
[ ] Rebuild (i.e. something is wrong with an existing version of this package and it needs to be rebuilt)

Name

polars

Version

latest

Platform(s)

linux, windows, mac

Location of source code

https://github.com/pola-rs/polars

Conda-Forge feedstock

https://github.com/conda-forge/polars-feedstock

Reason for this request

Polars is an increasingly popular DataFrame library (1.5M downloads last month) that provides a more performant, memory efficiënt, type safe and consistent alternative to pandas.

Though polars focusses on DataFrames, it is backed by an OLAP query engine that does amongst other things does query optimization and out of core data processing .