# pola-rs/polars

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.8 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 39,911 total · +3 stars on 2026-10-02 (UTC), ≈ 8 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Data & analytics · Language: Rust · License: MIT · Created: 2020-05-13 · Last push: 2026-10-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/pola-rs/polars · Homepage: https://docs.pola.rs · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/pola-rs/polars

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 3 stars so far today, about 8 expected by the end of the day.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @fornwall (2,490 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3,147
- Issues and pull requests: 29,592
- Watchers: 222
- Average over the last week: 9 per day
- Usual pace: 13 per day
- Latest release: py-2.0.0-rc.2 (2026-09-20)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-05 … 2026-11-03: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-19 1.9, 09-20 2.2, 09-21 1.7, 09-22 1.8, 09-23 1.5, 09-24 1.6, 09-25 1.4, 09-26 1.5, 09-27 1.4, 09-28 1.4, 09-29 1.6, 09-30 1.7, 10-01 1.7, 10-02 1.8

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-02 10:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.