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- Version
- 1.2.0
- Maintainers
- 2
PyExasol
PyExasol is the officially supported Python connector for Exasol. It helps to handle massive volumes of data commonly associated with this DBMS.
You may expect significant performance improvement over ODBC in a single process scenario involving pandas, parquet, or polars.
PyExasol provides an API to read & write multiple data streams in parallel using separate processes, which is necessary to fully utilize hardware and achieve linear scalability. With PyExasol you are no longer limited to a single CPU core.
- Documentation: https://exasol.github.io/pyexasol/
- Source Code: https://github.com/exasol/pyexasol
PyExasol Main Concepts
- Based on WebSocket protocol;
- Optimized for minimum overhead;
- Easy integration with pandas, parquet, and polars via HTTP transport;
- Compression to reduce network bottleneck;
System Requirements
- Exasol >= 7.1
- Python >= 3.9
Getting Started
Check out PyExasol's Getting Started page for your first steps.
Developers
- Created by Vitaly Markov, 2018 — 2022
- Maintained by Exasol 2023 — Today
FAQs
Exasol python driver with extra features
We found that pyexasol demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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