VariantArray and compute kernels for the Variant Binary Encoding from Apache Parquet.

Main APIs

• VariantArray : Represents an array of Variant values.
• VariantArrayBuilder: For building VariantArray

Compute Kernels

• [json_to_variant()]: Function to convert Arrays of JSON strings to a VariantArray.
• [variant_to_json()]: Function to convert a VariantArray to arrays of JSON strings.
• [cast_to_variant()]: Cast Arrow arrays to VariantArray.
• [variant_get()]: Convert VariantArray (or an inner path) to a strongly-typed Arrow array.
• [shred_variant()]: Shred a VariantArray according to the provided shredding schema
• [unshred_variant()]: Unshred a VariantArray to pure binary variant.

🚧 Work In Progress

This crate is under active development and is not yet ready for production use. If you are interested in helping, you can find more information on the GitHub Variant issue