Check the project’s left nav, https://ibis-project.org/why

I didn’t know either. It’s a python dataframe library/api.

Never heard of ibis before but the front page give a pretty good overview of what it is to me at least. Looks like a dataframes api that can be executed on a variety of backend engines, both distributed and local.

Somewhat analogous to how the pandas api can be used in pyspark via pyspark pandas, but from the api -> implementation direction rather than (pandas) implementation -> api -> implementation maybe?

As far as I can tell, it is an ORM for data engineers. They can write Python code that gets translated to either SQL or some other language understood by the DB engine that actually runs it.