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About 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. Daft can handle User-Defined Functions (UDFs) in columns, allowing you to apply complex expressions and operations to Python objects with the full flexibility required for ML/AI. 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.
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