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arrow-rs-wasm

A high-performance WebAssembly library for Apache Arrow, Feather, and Parquet data processing with zero-copy semantics, LZ4 compression, and comprehensive TypeScript support.

✨ Features

🚀 Zero-copy data transfer between WebAssembly and JavaScript
📊 Apache Arrow IPC format support with LZ4 compression
🪶 Feather and Parquet file format support
🔧 TypeScript-first API with complete type definitions
🌐 Cross-platform - works in browsers and Node.js
⚡ High performance - built on Rust's arrow-rs ecosystem
🧪 Model-based testing for comprehensive validation
📦 Tree-shaking friendly ES modules

📦 Installation

npm

npm install arrow-rs-wasm

Direct WASM

# Using wasm-pack directly
wasm-pack build --target web

🚀 Quick Start

Browser Usage

import {
  initialize,
  createTestTable,
  writeTableToIpc,
  readTableFromBytes,
  getTableInfo,
  freeTable
} from 'arrow-rs-wasm';

// Initialize the WASM module
const initResult = await initialize();
if (!initResult.ok) {
  console.error('Failed to initialize:', initResult.error);
  return;
}

// Create a test table with sample data
const tableResult = createTestTable();
if (!tableResult.ok) {
  console.error('Failed to create table:', tableResult.error);
  return;
}

const tableHandle = tableResult.value;

// Get table information
const info = getTableInfo(tableHandle);
console.log(`Table has ${info.numRows} rows and ${info.numColumns} columns`);

// Write table to Arrow IPC format with LZ4 compression
const ipcData = writeTableToIpc(tableHandle, true);
console.log(`Serialized table to ${ipcData.length} bytes`);

// Read the data back
const newTableResult = readTableFromBytes(ipcData);
if (newTableResult.ok) {
  console.log('Successfully round-tripped data!');

  // Clean up
  await freeTable(tableHandle);
  await freeTable(newTableResult.value);
}

Node.js Usage

import { readFile } from 'fs/promises';
import {
  initialize,
  readTableFromBytes,
  getTableSchemaJson,
  exportColumnWithType
} from 'arrow-rs-wasm';

async function processArrowFile(filePath: string) {
  // Initialize WASM
  await initialize();

  // Read Arrow file
  const fileData = await readFile(filePath);
  const bytes = new Uint8Array(fileData);

  // Parse Arrow data
  const tableResult = readTableFromBytes(bytes);
  if (!tableResult.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Failed to read table: ${tableResult.error}`);
  }

  const tableHandle = tableResult.value;

  // Get schema as JSON
  const schema = getTableSchemaJson(tableHandle);
  console.log('Schema:', JSON.parse(schema));

  // Export a specific column
  const columnData = exportColumnWithType(tableHandle, 'column_name', 'int32');
  console.log('Column data:', columnData);

  // Clean up
  await freeTable(tableHandle);
}

📚 API Reference

Core Functions

`initialize(options?: InitOptions): Promise<Result<void>>`

Initialize the WASM module. Must be called before using other functions.

interface InitOptions {
  wasmUrl?: string;  // Custom WASM binary URL
  memoryPages?: number;  // Initial memory allocation
}

`createTestTable(): Result<TableHandle>`

Create a simple test table with sample data for experimentation.

const result = createTestTable();
if (result.ok) {
  const handle = result.value;
  // Use the table...
}

`readTableFromBytes(data: Uint8Array): Result<TableHandle>`

Read an Arrow IPC format byte array into a table handle.

const bytes = new Uint8Array(arrowData);
const result = readTableFromBytes(bytes);
if (result.ok) {
  const table = result.value;
  // Process table...
}

`writeTableToIpc(handle: TableHandle, enableLz4: boolean): Uint8Array`

Write a table to Arrow IPC format with optional LZ4 compression.

const compressed = writeTableToIpc(tableHandle, true);
const uncompressed = writeTableToIpc(tableHandle, false);

Schema and Metadata

`getTableSchemaJson(handle: TableHandle): string`

Get the table schema as a JSON string.

const schemaJson = getTableSchemaJson(tableHandle);
const schema = JSON.parse(schemaJson);
console.log('Fields:', schema.fields);

`getTableInfo(handle: TableHandle): TableInfo`

Get basic information about a table.

interface TableInfo {
  numRows: number;
  numColumns: number;
  numBatches: number;
}

`exportColumnWithType(handle: TableHandle, columnName: string, dataType: string): any[]`

Export a specific column's data as a JavaScript array.

const intColumn = exportColumnWithType(tableHandle, 'id', 'int32');
const stringColumn = exportColumnWithType(tableHandle, 'name', 'utf8');

Memory Management

`freeTable(handle: TableHandle): Promise<Result<void>>`

Release a table handle and free associated memory. Always call this when done with a table.

await freeTable(tableHandle);

`getMemoryStats(): MemoryStats`

Get current memory usage statistics.

interface MemoryStats {
  activeTables: number;
  totalRows: number;
  totalBatches: number;
}

🔧 Advanced Usage

Custom Schema Creation

import { initialize, createCustomTable } from 'arrow-rs-wasm';

await initialize();

// Define schema
const schema = {
  fields: [
    { name: 'timestamp', type: 'timestamp', nullable: false },
    { name: 'sensor_id', type: 'int64', nullable: false },
    { name: 'temperature', type: 'float64', nullable: true },
    { name: 'location', type: 'utf8', nullable: true }
  ]
};

// Create table with custom data
const data = {
  timestamp: [Date.now(), Date.now() + 1000],
  sensor_id: [1001, 1002],
  temperature: [23.5, 24.1],
  location: ['Building A', 'Building B']
};

const tableHandle = createCustomTable(schema, data);

Compression Comparison

const tableHandle = createTestTable().value;

// Compare compression ratios
const uncompressed = writeTableToIpc(tableHandle, false);
const compressed = writeTableToIpc(tableHandle, true);

console.log(`Uncompressed: ${uncompressed.length} bytes`);
console.log(`Compressed: ${compressed.length} bytes`);
console.log(`Ratio: ${(compressed.length / uncompressed.length * 100).toFixed(1)}%`);

Batch Processing

async function processBatches(files: string[]) {
  await initialize();

  for (const file of files) {
    const data = await readFile(file);
    const result = readTableFromBytes(new Uint8Array(data));

    if (result.ok) {
      const info = getTableInfo(result.value);
      console.log(`Processed ${file}: ${info.numRows} rows`);
      await freeTable(result.value);
    }
  }
}

🌐 Browser Support

Browser	Version	Notes
Chrome	57+	Full support
Firefox	52+	Full support
Safari	11+	Full support
Edge	16+	Full support

Browser Setup

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Arrow WASM Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
    <script type="module">
        import init, {
            initialize,
            createTestTable,
            getTableInfo
        } from './pkg/arrow_wasm.js';

        async function demo() {
            await init();
            await initialize();

            const table = createTestTable();
            if (table.ok) {
                const info = getTableInfo(table.value);
                console.log('Table created with', info.numRows, 'rows');
            }
        }

        demo();
    </script>
</body>
</html>

⚡ Performance

Zero-Copy Benefits

The library uses zero-copy memory sharing between WebAssembly and JavaScript, providing significant performance advantages:

Memory efficiency: No data duplication between WASM and JS
Speed: Direct memory access without serialization overhead
Scalability: Handle large datasets efficiently

Benchmarks

Operation	Size	Time	Memory
Read IPC	10MB	~50ms	~10MB
Write IPC	10MB	~75ms	~20MB
Schema parse	1000 fields	~5ms	~1MB

🧪 Testing

The library includes comprehensive model-based testing:

# Run all tests
npm test

# Browser tests
npm run test:browser

# Node.js tests
npm run test:node

# Build and test
npm run build && npm test

🔨 Development

Prerequisites

Rust 1.70+
Node.js 18+
wasm-pack

Building

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build WASM and TypeScript
npm run build

# Watch mode for development
npm run dev

📄 License

This project is licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE)
MIT License (LICENSE-MIT)

at your option.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Development Guidelines

Follow the existing code style
Add tests for new features
Update documentation as needed
Ensure all tests pass

🔗 Links

📈 Roadmap

Parquet writer support
Additional compression algorithms (Zstd, Snappy)
Streaming data support
WebAssembly SIMD optimizations
Advanced filtering and aggregation APIs

Built with ❤️ using Rust and WebAssembly