Issue 511 · Week of Oct 20, 2026
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Polars 2.0: streaming engine by default, out-of-core spilling at 80% RAM, new Map dtype, faster than DuckDB on all but one benchmark

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collect() now defaults to the streaming engine and does not preserve row order for join and group_by without maintain_order=True. Out-of-core is on by default with a 64 GB disk budget; a new Map dtype maps Arrow MapType directly.