Daft

Daft is a framework for ETL, analytics and ML/AI at scale. Its familiar Python Dataframe API is built to outperform Spark in performance and ease of use. Daft plugs directly into your ML/AI stack through efficient zero-copy integrations with essential Python libraries such as Pytorch and Ray. It also allows requesting GPUs as a resource for running models. Daft runs locally with a lightweight multithreaded backend. When your local machine is no longer sufficient, it scales seamlessly to run out-of-core on a distributed cluster. Underneath its Python API, Daft is built in blazing fast Rust code. Rust powers Daft’s vectorized execution and async I/O, allowing Daft to outperform frameworks such as Spark.