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-Source: parquet-cpp
-Version: apache-parquet-cpp-1.1.0
-Build-Depends: boost, snappy, zlib, brotli, arrow, thrift
-Description: Apache Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data. It houses a set of canonical in-memory representations of flat and hierarchical data along with multiple language-bindings for structure manipulation. It also provides IPC and common algorithm implementations.