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commit 163be4204da1d1aa37c73e3f6eb3eb2fe8e9f7ff
Author: Wes McKinney <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Feb 8 13:59:22 2018 -0500
[Doc] Refine top of README, add GLib bindings to README, fix ASF link
Change-Id: I227eab4be9d8df54a71731c7b52496aff09d0f6a
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README.md | 19 ++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 15a9ffe..a7fed98 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,20 +30,22 @@
</tr>
</table>
-### Powering Columnar In-Memory Analytics
+### Powering In-Memory Analytics
-Arrow is a set of technologies that enable big-data systems to process and
move data fast.
+Apache Arrow is a development platform for in-memory analytics. It contains a
+set of technologies that enable big data systems to process and move data fast.
-Initial implementations include:
+Major components of the project include:
- - [The Arrow Format](https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/format)
+ - [The Arrow Columnar In-Memory
Format](https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/format)
- [C++ implementation](https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/cpp)
+ - [C bindings using GLib](https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/c_glib)
- [Java implementation](https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/java)
- [JavaScript implementation](https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/js)
- - [Python interface to C++
libraries](https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/python)
+ - [Python bindings to C++](https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/python)
-Arrow is an [Apache Software Foundation](www.apache.org) project. Learn more at
-[arrow.apache.org](http://arrow.apache.org).
+Arrow is an [Apache Software Foundation](https://www.apache.org) project.
Learn more at
+[arrow.apache.org](https://arrow.apache.org).
### What's in the Arrow libraries?
@@ -62,8 +64,7 @@ components:
interprocess communication (IPC)
- Integration tests for verifying binary compatibility between the
implementations (e.g. sending data from Java to C++)
-- Conversions to and from other in-memory data structures (e.g. Python's pandas
- library)
+- Conversions to and from other in-memory data structures
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