[Arrow](https://arrow.apache.org/) enables large amounts of data to be processed and moved quickly. It is a specific data format that stores data in a columnar memory layout. This provides several significant advantages:  
* Arrow's standard format allows [zero-copy reads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-copy) which removes virtually all serialization overhead.
* Arrow is language-agnostic so it supports different programming languages.
* Arrow is column-oriented so it is faster at querying and processing slices or columns of data.
* Arrow allows for copy-free hand-offs to standard machine learning tools such as NumPy, Pandas, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
* Arrow supports many, possibly nested, column types.