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AI · April 11, 2019

Vaex – A DataFrame with super strings (up to 1000x speedup)

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Vaex – A DataFrame with super strings (up to 1000x speedup) launched on April 11, 2019 with 11 votes, #973 of 3,128 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

In plain words

Vaex is a data processing tool designed for working with large datasets efficiently. It uses lazy evaluation and memory mapping to handle dataframes at high speed, making it suitable for data scientists and analysts who need to process big data without loading everything into memory at once. The tool emphasizes performance optimization for string operations and general data manipulation tasks.

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