Eventual-Inc

    Eventual-Inc/Daft

    High-performance data engine for AI and multimodal workloads. Process images, audio, video, and structured data at any scale

    ai
    data-engineering
    llm
    nlp
    machine-learning
    ai-engineering
    ai-pipeline
    arrow
    artificial-intelligence
    big-data
    Rust
    Apache-2.0
    5.8K stars
    577 forks
    5.8K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 27, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 21 days ago, with 191 contributors on GitHub.

    The biggest single-day gain in the last year, +29 stars on Dec 19, coincided with release v0.7.1.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a high-performance distributed query engine for large-scale data processing using Python or SQL, implemented in Rust.
    • Delivers efficient multimodal data handling and cloud-native I/O performance with a powerful query optimizer and native integration with Apache Arrow and Ray.
    • Use for interactive data exploration and rapid iteration on multimodal datasets like images, audio, and video in notebooks or REPLs.
    • Use for building scalable AI pipelines that process and transform complex nested data types across large distributed clusters.
    • Use for integrating with cloud storage and data catalogs such as Apache Iceberg to manage and query big data efficiently.

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Website <https://www.daft.ai>_ • Docs <https://docs.daft.ai>_ • Installation <https://docs.daft.ai/en/stable/install/>_ • Daft Quickstart <https://docs.daft.ai/en/stable/quickstart/>_ • Community and Support <https://github.com/Eventual-Inc/Daft/discussions>_

    Daft <https://www.daft.ai>_ is a distributed query engine for large-scale data processing using Python or SQL, implemented in Rust.

    Excerpt from the Eventual-Inc/Daft README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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