"A pandas-like data expression system providing comprehensive coverage of the functionality already provided by Impala. It is composable and semantically complete; if you can write it with SQL, you can write it with Ibis, often with substantially less code."

This sounds really interesting, but my biggest gripe with pandas is that I often know exactly the query I want to run with SQL but have to jump through a ton of hoops and a weird join syntax to figure out how to make the query in pandas. IMHO if you want to make data processing language as full-featured as SQL, why not just use SQL as the query language...