Intake-avro

The Apache Avro format is a popular method for information exchange, particularly for message and reord distribution in high-throughput systems.

In Intake, there are two plugins provided for reading avro data:

• avro_table is appropriate for data which have a schema simple enough to be represented as columns with simple types, i.e., flat schema. The output of this plugin are dataframes, and the reading is optimized for speed.
• avro_sequence is more generic and can handle all possible avro schema, but it produces generic python sequences of dictionaries, and is consequently much slower than the table reader.

Installation

The conda install instructions are:

conda install -c conda-forge fastavro uavro
conda install -c intake intake_avro

Examples

See the notebook in the examples/ directory.