Archery is documented on the Arrow website:
See the pages linked aboved for more details. As a general overview, Archery comes in a number of subpackages, each needing to be installed if you want to use the functionality of it:
pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[lint]"
pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[benchmark]"
pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[docker]"
pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[release]"
pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[crossbow]"
pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[crossbow-upload]"
Additionally, if you would prefer to install everything at once, pip install -e "arrow/dev/archery[all]"
is an alias for all of the above subpackages.
For some prior art on benchmarking in Arrow, see this prototype.