No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pyarrow has 415.1M monthly downloads and 17K GitHub stars. Version 24.0.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is used by 6,430 tracked packages, including datasets, awswrangler and db-dtypes.
GitHub topics include arrow and parquet.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
89
Adoption
70
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
415,111,046
•
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
415,111,046
Stars
16,901
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
•
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
13,148,099
Month daily avg
13,837,035
Momentum
-5.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Apache-2.0
•
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
76 days ago
Total releases
62
Releases/year
6.7
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
1,324
Monthly downloads
415,111,046
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
97
Issue Burden
132.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
31.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
73d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
9.2M
Windows
95.4K
macOS
60.2K
Python Versions
3.11
33.6%
2.7M
3.12
22.8%
1.9M
3.9
17.5%
1.4M
3.10
16.7%
1.4M
3.13
9.4%
765.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
6.8M
US
2.
IE
371.0K
IE
3.
DE
359.3K
DE
4.
SG
281.3K
SG
5.
IN
184.6K
IN
6.
GB
167.8K
GB
7.
NL
154.1K
NL
8.
CA
130.4K
CA
9.
ES
125.6K
ES
10.
KR
115.7K
KR
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
6430
- datasets
- awswrangler
- db-dtypes
- mlflow
- databricks-sqlalchemy
- langchain-google-vertexai
- pandas-gbq
- streamlit
- apache-airflow-providers-databricks
- apache-airflow-providers-snowflake
- google-adk
- apache-airflow-providers-google
- sagemaker-studio
- databricks-connect
- lancedb
- pyodps
- apache-beam
- datafusion
- pylance
- pyarrow-stubs
- influxdb3-python
- rerun-sdk
- chdb
- apache-superset
- pyspark-client
- triad
- arize-phoenix
- semantic-link-sempy
- tecton
- milvus-lite
- tensorflow-datasets
- open-webui
- databento
- sagemaker-mlops
- delta-sharing
- snowflake-ml-python
- fakesnow
- bigframes
- daft
- edgartools
- airbyte
- arize
- pyspark-huggingface
- autogluon-common
- chalkpy
- keplergl
- feast
- pandas-read-xml
- glum
- raydp
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
March 16, 2017
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
24.0.0
Total Releases
62
Contributors
1,324
Open PRs
323
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh