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The goal of this documentation is to provide a brief introduction to the arrow data format, then provide a walk-through of the functionality provided in the Arrow.jl Julia package, with an aim to expose a little of the machinery "under the hood" to help explain how things work and how that influences real-world use-cases for the arrow data format.

The best place to learn about the Apache arrow project is [the website itself](https://arrow.apache.org/), specifically the data format [specification](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html). Put briefly, the arrow project provides a formal speficiation for how columnar, "table" data can be laid out efficiently in memory to standardize and maximize the ability to share data across languages/platforms. In the current [apache/arrow GitHub repository](https://github.com/apache/arrow), language implementations exist for C++, Java, Go, Javascript, Rust, to name a few. Other database vendors and data processing frameworks/applications have also built support for the arrow format, allowing for a wide breadth of possibility for applications to "speak the data language" of arrow.
The best place to learn about the Apache arrow project is [the website itself](https://arrow.apache.org/), specifically the data format [specification](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html). Put briefly, the arrow project provides a formal specification for how columnar, "table" data can be laid out efficiently in memory to standardize and maximize the ability to share data across languages/platforms. In the current [apache/arrow GitHub repository](https://github.com/apache/arrow), language implementations exist for C++, Java, Go, Javascript, Rust, to name a few. Other database vendors and data processing frameworks/applications have also built support for the arrow format, allowing for a wide breadth of possibility for applications to "speak the data language" of arrow.

The [Arrow.jl](https://github.com/apache/arrow-julia) Julia package is another implementation, allowing the ability to both read and write data in the arrow format. As a data format, arrow specifies an exact memory layout to be used for columnar table data, and as such, "reading" involves custom Julia objects ([`Arrow.Table`](@ref) and [`Arrow.Stream`](@ref)), which read the *metadata* of an "arrow memory blob", then *wrap* the array data contained therein, having learned the type and size, amongst other properties, from the metadata. Let's take a closer look at what this "reading" of arrow memory really means/looks like.

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