Hey everyone, I'm a software engineer at Eventual, the team behind Daft! Huge thanks to the op for the benchmark, we're a huge fan of your blog posts and this gave us some really useful insights. For context, Daft is a high-performance data processing engine for AI workloads that works both on single-node and distributed setups.

We're actively looking into the results of the benchmark and hope to share some of our findings soon. From initial results, we found a lot of potential optimizations we could make to our deltalake reader to improve parallelism and our groupby operator to improve pipelining for count aggregations. We're hoping to roll our these improvements over the next couple of releases.

If you're interested to learn more about our findings, check out our GitHub (https://github.com/Eventual-Inc/Daft) or follow us on Twitter (https://x.com/daftengine) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/daftengine) for updates. Also if Daft sounds interesting to you, give us a try via pip install daft!