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Curious if making the Julia reader for Apache Arrow support Plasma may be more future friendly:

* https://github.com/ExpandingMan/Arrow.jl

* https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2017/08/08/plasma-in-memory-ob...

Arrow is basically a dataframe format. It's not really suitable for building data-structures. Eg one of the things Blobs is being used to implement is a Bε-tree (http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/BenderFaJa15.pdf).

Blobs is less a data-format and more a replacement for C's ability to cast arbitrary memory locations to structs.

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