vectra: Columnar Query Engine for Larger-than-RAM Data
A minimal columnar query engine with lazy execution on datasets larger than RAM. Provides 'dplyr'-like verbs (filter(), select(), mutate(), group_by(), summarise(), joins, window functions) and common aggregations (n(), sum(), mean(), min(), max(), sd(), first(), last()) backed by a pure C11 pull-based execution engine and a custom on-disk format ('.vtr').
| Version: | 0.5.1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | tidyselect, rlang |
| Suggests: | bit64, knitr, openxlsx2, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: | 2026-04-21 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.vectra (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Gilles Colling 
[aut, cre, cph] |
| Maintainer: | Gilles Colling <gilles.colling051 at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/gcol33/vectra/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://gillescolling.com/vectra/, https://github.com/gcol33/vectra |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| SystemRequirements: | GNU make |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | vectra results [issues need fixing before 2026-05-06] |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | vectra.html , vectra.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
vectra Engine Reference (source, R code) Format Backends (source, R code) Indexing and Query Optimization (source, R code) Joins (source, R code) Working with Large Data (source, R code) Getting Started with vectra (source, R code) Star Schemas and Lookup (source, R code) String Operations and Fuzzy Matching (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | vectra_0.5.1.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: vectra_0.5.1.zip, r-oldrel: vectra_0.5.1.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): vectra_0.5.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): vectra_0.5.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): vectra_0.5.1.tgz |
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