Polars vs Pandas: Is Switching Worth It for Ten‑Million‑Row Datasets?
The article shows that Polars, a query‑compiling DataFrame library, can accelerate ten‑million‑row GroupBy workloads by 6‑10× compared with Pandas, explains the underlying optimizer, Arrow columnar engine and Rust parallelism, provides a 20‑item syntax map, three real migration scenarios, streaming for out‑of‑memory data, and AI‑pipeline use cases, and offers a step‑by‑step migration guide.
