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Summary

Fixes #141.

store_dataframe now writes Arrow files that the dataframe reader can serve a page at a time. The toolkit cuts the record batches itself, records each batch's row count in the manifest as batch_rows, caps batches by bytes as well as rows, and compresses with zstd or not at all.

Changes

Writing (_dataframe_storage.py)

• pandas and polars share one write path. The frame becomes an Arrow table (pa.Table.from_pandas(df, preserve_index=None) for pandas, df.to_arrow(compat_level=oldest) for polars), and pa.ipc.new_file writes it one batch at a time.
• Rows per batch is clamp(8 MiB / average row bytes, 1, 65,536).
  • Row bytes are summed per column with nbytes, because every batch writes its own copy of each column and chunk, even ones that share buffers.
  • A column holding a dictionary uses min(nbytes, get_total_buffer_size()), because the file holds the dictionary once.
• A batch over 12 MiB, which long rows that sit together can produce, is split into the longest prefixes that fit. A row over 12 MiB gets a batch of its own.
• Each batch is a slice of the table with its chunks combined, so small chunks don't make small batches.
• Dictionaries are unified before writing, because an IPC file can't replace a column's dictionary.
• Compression is zstd when pyarrow has it, else none. Never lz4.

polars checks (_polars_compatibility_checks.py, new)

Each raises TypeError before anything is written:

• polars older than 1.35.1: its to_arrow() copies a Categorical's whole dictionary into every chunk.
• Object columns, including Object nested in a List, Array or Struct: to_arrow() exports each value as its memory address.
• Array columns at any depth, on polars older than 1.43.2: to_arrow() applies a sliced Array's offset twice when the slice holds a null (Exporting a sliced Array column with nulls over the Arrow C interface returns shifted values; pa.table(df) aborts the process pola-rs/polars#28583).

Manifest (_dataframe_storage_manifest.py)

• New required field batch_rows; rows is its sum.
• The size cap rises from 4 KiB to 64 KiB. encode_manifest raises ValueError past the cap, before the current frame is replaced. That takes about 9,000 batches, some 600M rows.

dataframes.py

• The store_dataframe docstring lists the new errors.

Behaviour changes

• A manifest without batch_rows, as written by 2.9.0, counts as absent. The next store of that name doesn't keep its file as previous, and the file is deleted once it is a day old, like any unreferenced frame.
• Batch boundaries change. Values, schema and pandas metadata don't.
• New errors:
  • the polars checks above;
  • ValueError for a frame that needs more batches than the manifest can list;
  • TypeError for a pandas frame with a column or index of an Arrow view type (string_view, binary_view, list_view or large_list_view), also nested in a list, struct or dictionary. main stored these frames. pyarrow older than 24 can't compute their nbytes, and on 24 every batch would carry up to all of the column's data: a 15 MB string_view column became a 112 MB file of one-row batches;
  • polars Int128 columns raise ArrowInvalid from to_arrow().
• polars frames are converted whole by to_arrow(), which also copies string views to large_string. Storing a 1.4 GiB frame of 10M strings now raises peak memory by 1.47 GiB, up from 0.35 GiB. pandas is unchanged.
• A polars frame of about 100k chunks stores about 20 times slower, because to_arrow() costs about 0.09 ms per chunk.

Known limits

• Categoricals stay dictionary-encoded, and the reader reads every dictionary for every page. Dictionaries past the reader's limit of about 1M values make every page unservable.
• On polars older than 1.43.0, a sliced Struct column holding a null makes store_dataframe raise pyarrow's ArrowInvalid (a polars bug). The previous frame is kept.
• The dataframe reader must accept manifests up to 64 KiB.

Testing

• Unit tests in tests/unit/artifacts/ cover:
  • batch_rows matching the file's record batches;
  • the 8 MiB byte cap, and a row larger than a batch;
  • long rows that sit together, split into batches of at most 12 MiB without a trail of small ones;
  • buffers shared across columns and chunks;
  • dictionary unification;
  • zstd-or-none compression;
  • the manifest size cap and batch_rows validation;
  • each polars check, and frames the checks allow.
• End to end, the dataframe reader (with its manifest cap raised to 64 KiB) served every page at page sizes 100 and 1000 for frames written by this branch:
  • ints and categoricals;
  • chunked polars frames;
  • columns and chunks that share buffers;
  • empty frames and frames without columns;
  • long text;
  • mixed types.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Dataframe storage now writes data in sized batches and tracks each batch’s row count. Zstandard compression is used when available; otherwise data is stored without compression.
  • Manifest capacity has increased to 64 KiB, supporting larger stored dataframes.
• Bug Fixes
  • Clearer errors are provided for unsupported Polars versions and dataframe column types, including unsupported Arrow view types. Existing stored data is preserved if an incompatible dataframe cannot be saved.
• Documentation
  • Documented storage limits and Polars version and data type requirements.

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Findings

Gate the view-type tests on API availability.
Allow the predicates to be absent.
Recurse into extension storage types.

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Review comments at @deepnote_toolkit/artifacts/_dataframe_storage.py:
- Around line 89-135: Update `_contains_type` to recurse into `storage_type`
when `data_type` is a `pa.BaseExtensionType`, applying the existing match and
nested-type checks to the storage type so `_refuse_view_types` detects view
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Review comments at @tests/unit/artifacts/test_storing.py:
- Line 157: Update the predicate-removal setup in the compatibility test so it
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Review comments at @tests/unit/artifacts/test_write_failures.py:
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Walkthrough

The PR replaces Feather and version-dependent Polars writing with a shared Arrow IPC path. It adds recursive compatibility checks and byte- and row-based batch sizing, then records each batch’s row count in the manifest. Compression uses zstd when available and otherwise none. The manifest limit increases to 64 KiB. Tests cover batch contents, compatibility errors, write failures, cleanup, and read-only mounts.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant store_frame
  participant ArrowIPCWriter
  participant Manifest
  Client->>store_frame: store pandas or Polars frame
  store_frame->>ArrowIPCWriter: convert and write sized record batches
  ArrowIPCWriter-->>store_frame: return batch row counts
  store_frame->>Manifest: encode rows and batch_rows
  Manifest-->>store_frame: return encoded manifest
  store_frame-->>Client: complete storage or return None on EROFS

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Possibly related issues

• deepnote/deepnote-toolkit#141 — The changes add batch row counts, row and byte limits, avoid lz4, and increase the manifest limit.

Suggested reviewers: mfranczel

Merge Risk: Low · up to 44765

Standard locked tests are unaffected, but supported older installations have failing tests, and an unusual view-backed column can produce oversized storage. These bounded issues merit fixes but do not otherwise block merging.

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Issue #141 requirements are met. The storage path writes controlled Arrow record batches, records batch_rows, merges chunks, applies row and byte limits, uses zstd or no compression, and supports a 64 KiB manifest. Manifests without batch_rows remain absent until the frame is stored again. Tests cover batching, compression, manifest validation, and reader behavior.

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- Line 101: Gate both view-type tests in test_write_failures.py on the
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ArrowExtensionArray; skip them when those APIs are unavailable. Apply the same
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test_view_type_column_raises_and_keeps_the_previous_frame and
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