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  "description": "Polars is a blazingly fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python, written from the ground up in Rust to provide multi-threaded, vectorized execution. It is designed to handle data processing tasks significantly faster than traditional libraries by utilizing all available CPU cores and the Apache Arrow memory format.",
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      "slug": "dask",
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      "slug": "apache-duckdb",
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    "founded": "2020 (OSS project), 2023 (Company)",
    "headquarters": "Amsterdam, Netherlands",
    "pricing_model": "Free (Open Source), Enterprise/Custom (Cloud/Support)",
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      "Native Python/SQL: Data manipulation using the standard Python dictionary and list structures, or native SQL for database-resident data."
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