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pola-rs

polars

Extremely fast Query Engine for DataFrames, written in Rust
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polars has 60.7M monthly downloads and 39K GitHub stars. Version 1.42.1 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2021.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of polars-runtime-32. It is used by 3,261 tracked packages, including ultralytics, datacompy and mteb.

GitHub topics include dataframe-library, dataframe and dataframes.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (pola-rs/polars) with 7 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
2.0M
Week
14.1M
Month
60.7M
Stars
38.9K
Forks
2.9K
Issues
2.5K
Version
1.42.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
94
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
60,699,384
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
60,699,384
Stars
38,926
Stars per 1k downloads
0.64
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
2,014,117
Month daily avg
2,023,313
Momentum
-0.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT License
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
6 days ago
Total releases
451
Releases/year
84.9
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
716
Monthly downloads
60,699,384
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
62
 
Issue Burden
64.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
24.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.1M
Windows 32.1K
macOS 17.4K

Python Versions

3.12
36.3% 401.6K
3.11
23.0% 254.4K
3.13
17.5% 193.5K
3.10
15.3% 169.2K
3.14
8.0% 88.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
839.9K
2. DE DE
61.3K
3. IE IE
50.5K
4. NL NL
37.7K
5. JP JP
25.6K
6. SG SG
22.5K
7. IN IN
18.5K
8. KR KR
17.0K
9. GB GB
16.7K
10. SE SE
10.6K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
March 15, 2021
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
1.42.1
Total Releases
451
Contributors
716
Open PRs
301
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 py3
Keywords
dataframe arrow out-of-core
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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