FireDucks
Compiler Accelerated DataFrame Library for Python with fully-compatible pandas API
import fireducks.pandas as pd

Accelerate pandas without any manual code changes
Do you have a pandas-based program that is slow? FireDucks can speed-up your programs without any manual code changes. You can accelerate your data analysis without worrying about slow performance due to single-threaded execution in pandas.

Sustainable and Economical
Concerned about the cost and environmental impact of cloud computing? Our acceleration technology reduces cloud usage fees, while minimizing the CO2 emissions at the same time, making FireDucks an environment-friendly and wallet-friendly choice.

Reliability and Performance
FireDucks is developed by infusing the essence of supercomputers that NEC has refined over the years. Made in Japan, high-quality FireDucks promises reliability and high performance.
Features
Multithreaded ✨
FireDucks is multi-threaded, enabling higher speeds on multi-core CPUs. More
JIT Compile ⚡
A runtime compiler embedded in the library optimizes your code. More
pandas API 🐼
FireDucks is fully compatible with pandas API. The only difference is the import statement. No additional learning is required to start with FireDucks.Get started
AS IS Execution 🚀
You can run your pandas program directly with FireDucks. Its import-hook functionality will automatically replace the import statement for pandas with the import statement for FireDucks. More
Benchmarks 📈
FireDucks shows high performance gain while executing various queries included in the TPC-H and TPCx-BB benchmarks. More.
Use Cases
From Users
From Developers

Efficient optimization of data flow
By Sourav Saha | 2025-01-31
This article explains how FireDucks lazy-execution optimizes the data flow of a user program

Pitfalls of %%time
By Osamu Daido | 2024-12-26
Let's take a look at pitfalls of the %%time magic command with FireDucks.

How to take traces in FireDucks
By | 2024-12-20
This article introduces how to get execution traces in FireDucks.

Ensuring compatibility with pandas in the GPU version of FireDucks
By | 2024-12-19
In this article, we will introduce what points we have to be careful about when developing the GPU version of FireDucks to ensure compatibility with pandas.




