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.. _api.acero:
.. currentmodule:: pyarrow.acero

Acero - Streaming Execution Engine
==================================

.. warning::

    Acero is experimental and a stable API is not yet guaranteed.

Acero is a streaming query engine, which allows the computation to be expressed
as an "execution plan" (constructed using the :class:`Declaration` interface).
This enables to create a computation composed of ``pyarrow.compute`` functions
and to execute this efficiently in a batched manner.

.. autosummary::
   :toctree: ../generated/

   Declaration
   ExecNodeOptions
   TableSourceNodeOptions
   ScanNodeOptions
   FilterNodeOptions
   ProjectNodeOptions
   AggregateNodeOptions
   OrderByNodeOptions
   HashJoinNodeOptions


.. seealso::

   :doc:`Acero C++ user guide <../../cpp/acero>`

   :ref:`api.substrait`
      Alternative way to run Acero from a standardized Substrait plan.