pola-rs/polars

Extremely fast Query Engine for DataFrames, written in Rust

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1.8 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 19, 2026.

About the project

Polars is an analytical query engine for DataFrames written in Rust, with bindings for Python, Node.js, R, and SQL. It offers fast queries with lazy execution, out-of-the-box optimization, and streaming processing for datasets larger than RAM.

Useful for

Run order aggregation by customer from a parquet file using a lazy query
Process 250GB of data on a laptop via streaming collect mode
Speed up existing pandas pipelines by rewriting them with Polars expressions

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

2 stars so far today, about 8 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending Rust today: #11, +24 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 39,782
Stars in a day: 8
Forks: 3,116
Issues and pull requests: 29,286
Watchers: 221
Language: Rust
License: MIT
Latest release: py-1.44.2 · September 9, 2026
Created: May 13, 2020
Last push: September 19, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 19, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #11, +24 stars

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