This is a very early stage MATLAB interface to the Apache Arrow C++ libraries.

The current code only supports reading/writing numeric types from/to Feather files.

See: Arrow CPP README

cd arrow/matlab
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

To specify a non-standard MATLAB install location, use the Matlab_ROOT_DIR CMake flag:

cmake .. -DMatlab_ROOT_DIR=/<PATH_TO_MATLAB_INSTALL>

To specify a non-standard Arrow install location, use the ARROW_HOME CMake flag:

cmake .. -DARROW_HOME=/<PATH_TO_ARROW_INSTALL>

This may be preferred if you are using MATLAB R2018b or later and have encountered linker errors when using CMake.

Prerequisite: Ensure that the Arrow C++ library is already installed and the ARROW_HOME environment variable is set to the installation root.

To verify this, you can run:

>> getenv ARROW_HOME

This should print a path that contains include and lib directories with Arrow C++ headers and libraries.

Navigate to the build_support subfolder and run the compile function to build the necessary MEX files:

>> cd build_support
>> compile

Run the test function to execute the unit tests:

>> test

>> cd(fullfile('arrow', 'matlab'));
>> addpath src;
>> addpath build;

>> t = array2table(rand(10, 10));
>> filename = 'table.feather';
>> featherwrite(filename,t);

>> filename = 'table.feather';
>> t = featherread(filename);

>> cd(fullfile('arrow', 'matlab'));
>> addpath src;
>> addpath build;
>> cd test;
>> runtests .;