تؤمن شركة Polars التي تتخذ من أمستردام مقراً لها 3.6 مليون يورو للسماح لعلماء البيانات بالتركيز بشكل أكبر على الكود الخاص بهم وبدرجة أقل على البنية التحتية | الشركات الناشئة في الاتحاد الأوروبي

قطبية, a DataFrame library based on the Rust programming language for data scientists and engineers, announced its seed funding of €3.6 million led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) with participation from individual investors. The funding will be used to expand the team, and build a compute platform to efficiently run Polars at any scale.

بدأ المؤسس ريتشي فينك مشروع Polars بهدف جلب معالجة بيانات رقمية وعلمية عالية الأداء إلى الكمبيوتر المحمول. تُمكِّن Polars علماء البيانات والمهندسين من تحليل إطارات البيانات الكبيرة دون الحاجة إلى إعداد وصيانة مجموعة الحوسبة الموزعة. اليوم ، Polars هي واحدة من أسرع مكتبات DataFrame في الوجود ، وواحدة من أسرع مشاريع معالجة البيانات نموًا على GitHub.

“Polars will let data scientists and engineers focus more on their code and less on infrastructure,” said Slater Stich, Partner at BCV. “Historically, data teams have faced a big leap in infrastructure complexity once the DataFrames they’re working with grow beyond a few gigabytes in size. Polars gives those teams a high-performance library that handles much larger data sets, even on a single node. Polars is easy to adopt for data practitioners who are already familiar with Pandas or R DataFrames.”

Founded in 2020 by machine learning engineer, Ritchie Vink, and his co-founder Chiel Peters, former CTO at Xomnia, the company will be built around the open-source Polars project, and will focus on furthering Polars’ scalability and interoperability in enterprise environments.

“What started as a pet project of mine in 2020 has grown beyond my expectations, thanks to the open source community,” said Vink. “Now, with the support of our investors and our community, we will focus on offering managed environments, improving cloud connectors, and supporting the many companies that already use Polars.”

The Polars OSS is MIT-licensed, and the company will continue to sponsor and accelerate the open-source development of Polars.