Feature Request: support for Polars

[PierreSnell]

Missing functionality

Polars integration ? https://www.pola.rs/

Proposed feature

Use polars dataframe as a compute backend.
Or let the user give a polars dataframe to the ProfileReport.

Alternatives considered

Spark integration.

Additional context

Polars help to optimize queries and reduce memory footprint.
It could be used to do analysis on big dataframe and speed up computation ?

[fabclmnt]

Hi @PierreSnell ,
we have the spark integration already ongoing so I'll be linking this Issue to that instead #543.
Thank you for your suggestion

[leandro-ferreira-farm]

Support to Polars could be wonderful. Polars had great growth in the last years and many data scientist and data analysts using daily. In this road map support Polars?

[fabclmnt]

Hi @leandro-ferreira-farm , no not yet.

We haven't yet found that much of an interest among the community to add it to the roadmap.
But let us know if you are interested in contributing for Polars support we would be happy to guide you through the initiative.

[leandro-ferreira-farm]

Hello @fabclmnt, I have interesting in contributing with the project and add Polars support, please tell how can I do this.

[naisofly]

PLEASE add polars support 🙌🙌🙌

[bvolodarskiy]

agree

[kyle-gilde]

yes, it would be great to see Polars support. As of 2024, I think that Polars is gaining a lot of ground in the non-Spark, big-data DataFrame competition.