Vulkan Columnar

Contents

• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Building
  • Running Tests
  • Hello Compute
  • Library Usage (C API)
• API Reference
  • Core Types
  • Context Lifecycle
  • Column Management
  • Null Support (Arrow Validity Bitmaps)
  • Arrow C Data Interface
  • Operations
  • Chained Execution
  • Utilities
• Contributing
• Performance Optimizations
  • Optimization 1: Filter Pipeline Caching
  • Optimization 2: GPU-Only Buffer Allocation (VMA Flags)
  • Optimization 3: Reusable Command Buffer per Context
  • Optimization 4: Subgroup Scan in Filter Pass 1
  • Optimization 5: Push Descriptors in vc_filter
  • Optimization 6: Sort Pipeline Caching
  • Planned Optimizations

GPU columnar compute library via Vulkan — filter, cast, and scan operations on typed column arrays, exposed through a C ABI for binding into Polars, DataFusion, Spark, and Python.

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page