Initial development begins

Andy Grove initiates the development of DataFusion, a Rust-native query engine, with the aim of creating a high-performance, embeddable SQL engine for Apache Arrow data.

Significance

This marked the conceptual birth of DataFusion, driven by the vision for a more efficient and safer approach to analytical processing.

Key facts

Year
2019
Type
invention
Location
Virtually, at DataCater (later InfluxData)