Spacy is much faster on the GPU. Many folks don't know that Cudf (a Pandas implementation for GPUs) parallelizes string operations (these are notoriously slow on Pandas)... shrug...
The Polars homepage links to the "Database-like ops benchmark" of {Polars, data.table, DataFrames.jl, ClickHouse, cuDF*, spark, (py)datatable, dplyr, pandas, dask, Arrow, DuckDB, Modin,} but not yet PostgresML? https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/