avila-arrow 0.1.1

Native columnar format for AvilaDB with scientific types (Quaternions, Tensors, Complex, Spinors) - Optimized for Brazilian research infrastructure
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🚀 avila-arrow

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Native columnar format for AvilaDB with scientific types - Optimized for Brazilian research infrastructure

✨ Unique Features

World's ONLY columnar format with native scientific types:

  • 🔬 Quaternion - 4D rotations for robotics & aerospace
  • 🌌 Tensor4D - Spacetime tensors for General Relativity
  • ⚛️ Complex64 - Complex numbers for FFT & quantum mechanics
  • 🎯 Spinor - Dirac spinors for particle physics

Plus standard Arrow types:

  • Primitives: Int8-64, UInt8-64, Float32/64, Boolean
  • Strings: UTF-8
  • Binary data
  • Timestamps

🎯 Why avila-arrow?

Unlike Apache Arrow, avila-arrow is built from scratch for:

  1. Scientific Computing - Native support for physics/astrophysics types
  2. Zero Dependencies - Only byteorder required
  3. AvilaDB Native - Optimized for AvilaDB storage
  4. SIMD Ready - Prepared for AVX2/AVX-512 acceleration

🚀 Quick Start

[dependencies]
avila-arrow = "0.1"

Basic Usage

use avila_arrow::{Schema, Field, DataType, RecordBatch};
use avila_arrow::array::{Int64Array, Float64Array};

// Define schema
let schema = Schema::new(vec![
    Field::new("id", DataType::Int64),
    Field::new("temperature", DataType::Float64),
]);

// Create arrays
let ids = Int64Array::from(vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
let temps = Float64Array::from(vec![20.5, 21.3, 19.8, 22.1, 20.9]);

// Create columnar batch
let batch = RecordBatch::try_new(
    schema,
    vec![Box::new(ids), Box::new(temps)]
)?;

println!("Batch has {} rows", batch.num_rows()); // 5
# Ok::<(), avila_arrow::ArrowError>(())

Scientific Types

use avila_arrow::scientific::{Quaternion, Complex64, Tensor4D, Spinor};

// Quaternion - Spacecraft orientation
let orientation = Quaternion::from_axis_angle(
    [0.0, 0.0, 1.0],  // Z-axis
    std::f64::consts::PI / 2.0  // 90 degrees
);

let rotated = orientation.rotate_vector([1.0, 0.0, 0.0]);
// Result: [0.0, 1.0, 0.0] - rotated 90° around Z

// Complex numbers - Signal processing
let signal = Complex64::new(1.0, 2.0);
let conjugate = signal.conjugate();
let magnitude = signal.magnitude();

// Tensor4D - General Relativity
let minkowski = Tensor4D::minkowski();  // Flat spacetime
let schwarzschild = Tensor4D::schwarzschild(1.0);  // Black hole

// Spinor - Particle physics
let spin_up = Spinor::spin_up();
let normalized = spin_up.normalize();

📦 Features

  • scientific (default) - Enable scientific types
  • ipc - Arrow IPC format support (coming soon)
  • serde - Serialization support (optional)
[dependencies]
avila-arrow = { version = "0.1", features = ["scientific", "ipc"] }

🔬 Use Cases

Astrophysics

  • LIGO gravitational wave detection
  • LISA space telescope data
  • Vera Rubin Observatory

Aerospace

  • Spacecraft attitude control (Quaternions)
  • Trajectory simulation
  • Sensor fusion

Quantum Computing

  • Spinor state representation
  • Quantum circuit simulation

Signal Processing

  • FFT with Complex64
  • Time-series analysis
  • Medical imaging (MRI, CT)

🏗️ Architecture

avila-arrow/
├── Core Types
│   ├── DataType     - Type definitions
│   ├── Field        - Schema fields
│   ├── Schema       - Table schema
│   └── RecordBatch  - Columnar data
│
├── Arrays (Columnar Storage)
│   ├── Int64Array, Float64Array
│   ├── BooleanArray, Utf8Array
│   └── Scientific arrays (future)
│
└── Scientific Types ⭐ UNIQUE!
    ├── Quaternion   - 4D rotations
    ├── Complex64    - Complex numbers
    ├── Tensor4D     - Spacetime tensors
    └── Spinor       - Quantum spinors

📊 Roadmap

v0.2.0 - Arrow Compatibility (3 weeks)

  • Arrow IPC format (read/write .arrow files)
  • Arrow Flight (gRPC)
  • Parquet integration

v0.3.0 - Scientific Enhancement (4 weeks)

  • QuaternionArray with SIMD (AVX2)
  • ComplexArray with native FFT
  • SpinorArray with Dirac equation
  • Tensor4DArray with Riemann curvature

v0.4.0 - Compute Kernels (5 weeks)

  • SIMD aggregations (sum, mean, var)
  • Filtering & sorting
  • Hash joins
  • Window functions

v0.5.0 - GPU Acceleration ⚡ (6 weeks)

  • CUDA/ROCm kernels
  • 100x speedup for scientific computing
  • Native GPU memory management

v1.0.0 - Production Ready (4 weeks)

  • Distributed computing
  • Query engine
  • Compression (50x with avila-compress)
  • Full AvilaDB integration

🎯 Performance Targets (v1.0)

Operation Speed Comparison
Sum 1B floats 100ms 10x faster than Pandas
Filter 1B rows 200ms 5x faster than Arrow C++
Hash join 100M 5s Match DuckDB
GPU matmul 10ms Match cuBLAS
Compression 50x Best-in-class

🌍 Comparison

Feature avila-arrow Apache Arrow Polars DuckDB
Scientific types ✅ ❌ ❌ ❌
Quaternions ✅ ❌ ❌ ❌
Tensor4D ✅ ❌ ❌ ❌
GPU acceleration 🚧 v0.5 ❌ ❌ ❌
Zero deps ✅ ❌ ❌ ❌
Rust native ✅ C++ ✅ C++

Unique Value: World's ONLY columnar format with native scientific types!

🧪 Testing

# Run all tests (29 passing)
cargo test

# Run benchmarks
cargo bench

# Build examples
cargo build --examples

📚 Examples

See examples/ directory:

  • basic.rs - Schema and RecordBatch basics
  • scientific.rs - Quaternions, Complex, Tensors
  • ipc.rs - Arrow IPC format (coming soon)
cargo run --example basic
cargo run --example scientific

🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! This library is part of the Avila Platform for high-performance computing in Brazil.

📄 License

Dual-licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0

🔗 Links

Built with ❤️ in Brazil for world-class scientific computing 🇧🇷