# Install apache-arrow with Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, zypper

Columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data. Version 24.0.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-02.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:apache-arrow
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install apache-arrow
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install apache-arrow
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/apache-arrow/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add apache-arrow
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: apache-arrow from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install apache-arrow
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: apache-arrow from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:apache-arrow
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/apache-arrow>
- **Version:** 24.0.0
- **Source summary:** Columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data
- **Homepage:** <https://arrow.apache.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/apache/arrow>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://arrow.apache.org/docs>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?path=arrow/arrow-24.0.0/apache-arrow-24.0.0.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-02T20:34:06Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- parquet-dump-arrow-statistics (cli)
- parquet-dump-footer (cli)
- parquet-dump-schema (cli)
- parquet-reader (cli)
- parquet-scan (cli)
- parquet-dump-arrow-statistics (alias)
- parquet-dump-footer (alias)
- parquet-dump-schema (alias)
- parquet-reader (alias)
- parquet-scan (alias)

## Dependencies

- abseil
- aws-crt-cpp
- aws-sdk-cpp
- brotli
- grpc
- llvm
- lz4
- openssl@3
- protobuf
- re2
- snappy
- thrift
- utf8proc
- zstd

## Build dependencies

- boost
- cmake
- gflags
- rapidjson
- xsimd

## Uses from macOS

- bzip2

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 24.0.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-07-02
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://arrow.apache.org/
- info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Project history and usage

Apache Arrow is a universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics. It gives data systems a shared memory representation, IPC format, and language implementations so analytics data can move with less copying and conversion.

### Project history

The official README describes Arrow as a universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics. Its major components include the columnar format, IPC format, Arrow Flight, ADBC, C++ libraries, bindings, and implementations across languages including Python, R, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Go, Rust, Julia, Swift, and .NET.

Arrow grew as an Apache Software Foundation data project around the problem of interoperability between analytical systems. Instead of every engine inventing a private in-memory table format, Arrow standardizes buffers, schemas, metadata, and IPC so systems can exchange columnar data efficiently.

The Git tag history records early `apache-arrow-0.1.0` tags and a later `apache-arrow-1.0.0`, followed by regular major and minor releases. The modern repository has also split some language implementations into separate official repositories, such as Arrow Go, Arrow Java, Arrow Rust, Arrow JS, and Arrow ADBC, while keeping the format and C++-anchored reference libraries central.

### Adoption history

Arrow's adoption came from becoming infrastructure inside analytics engines, databases, dataframe libraries, and file-format tooling. Its value is not usually a standalone CLI; it is the ability for systems to share columnar data without serializing through slow row-oriented or language-specific structures.

The Homebrew package exposes Parquet and Arrow-related command-line tools such as `parquet-reader`, `parquet-scan`, `parquet-dump-schema`, `parquet-dump-footer`, and `parquet-dump-arrow-statistics`. That reflects a common package-manager role for Arrow: install native libraries plus practical inspection tools for columnar data files.

### How it is used

Developers use Arrow through language libraries, the C++ implementation, the Arrow format, Arrow IPC, Arrow Flight RPC, and ADBC. Package users may install it directly for the CLI tools, headers, libraries, or as a dependency of higher-level analytics packages.

Arrow is especially important in build graphs that involve Parquet, dataframe runtimes, query engines, and cross-language data interchange. Its package must balance native-code performance, ABI concerns, many language bindings, and compatibility with file formats such as Parquet and CSV.

### Why package nerds care

Apache Arrow is one of the canonical modern data infrastructure packages: a format spec, native library, language ecosystem, and CLI-tool bundle in one project. It is a dependency whose version can affect performance, binary compatibility, and interoperability across many data tools.

For package maintainers, Arrow is interesting because it is not a single executable. It is a multi-language, multi-component substrate whose release affects downstream Python, R, C++, Parquet, and database connectivity ecosystems.

### Timeline

- 2016: Early `apache-arrow-0.1.0` tag appears in the official Git repository.
- 2020: `apache-arrow-1.0.0` appears in the official Git repository.
- 2022: `apache-arrow-10.0.0` appears in the official Git repository.
- 2025: `apache-arrow-20.0.0` appears in the official Git repository.

### Related projects

- Apache Parquet is a file format commonly used with Arrow tooling.
- Arrow Flight and ADBC are Arrow ecosystem projects for RPC and database connectivity.
- Separate official repositories now maintain several language implementations, including Arrow Go, Arrow Java, Arrow Rust, Arrow JS, Arrow Swift, Arrow Julia, and Arrow ADBC.

### Sources

- <https://arrow.apache.org/docs>
- <https://github.com/apache/arrow#readme>
- <https://github.com/apache/arrow.git tags via `git ls-remote --tags`>
- source_facts.executables
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** apache-arrow
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 6
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- apk - apache-arrow - 23.0.1-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: apache-arrow from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing | https://arrow.apache.org/
- apk - apache-arrow-dev - 23.0.1-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: apache-arrow-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing (development files) | https://arrow.apache.org/
- apk - apache-arrow-doc - 23.0.1-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: apache-arrow-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing (documentation) | https://arrow.apache.org/
- apk - apache-arrow-gdb - 23.0.1-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: apache-arrow-gdb from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing (gdb integration) | https://arrow.apache.org/
- apk - libarrow - 23.0.1-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libarrow from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing (libarrow library) | https://arrow.apache.org/
- apk - libarrow_acero - 23.0.1-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libarrow_acero from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing (libarrow_acero library) | https://arrow.apache.org/
- apk - libarrow_dataset - 23.0.1-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libarrow_dataset from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing (libarrow_dataset library) | https://arrow.apache.org/
- apk - libarrow_flight - 23.0.1-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libarrow_flight from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing (libarrow_flight library) | https://arrow.apache.org/
- apk - libparquet - 23.0.1-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libparquet from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing (libparquet library) | https://arrow.apache.org/
- apk - py3-pyarrow - 23.0.1-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: py3-pyarrow from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing (python module) | https://arrow.apache.org/
- apk - py3-pyarrow-pyc - 23.0.1-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: py3-pyarrow-pyc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Precompiled Python bytecode for py3-pyarrow | https://arrow.apache.org/
- zypper - apache-arrow - 23.0.1-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: apache-arrow from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | A development platform for in-memory data | https://arrow.apache.org/
- zypper - apache-arrow-devel - 23.0.1-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: apache-arrow-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Development platform for in-memory data - development files | https://arrow.apache.org/
- zypper - apache-parquet-devel - 23.0.1-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: apache-parquet-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Development platform for in-memory data - development files | https://arrow.apache.org/
- zypper - apache-parquet-utils - 23.0.1-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: apache-parquet-utils from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Development platform for in-memory data - development files | https://arrow.apache.org/
- zypper - libarrow2300 - 23.0.1-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libarrow2300 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Development platform for in-memory data - shared library | https://arrow.apache.org/


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View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/apache-arrow.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/apache-arrow.yml)


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