Zarrista Makes Reading Zarr 1.9×–2.7× Faster in Python

Zarrista is a new Python library for working with Zarr data. Implemented in Rust, it delivers significant performance improvements over Zarr-Python, the go-to library for handling Zarr data in Python. Work is currently ongoing to integrate Zarrista into Zarr-Python to bring those benefits to the wider Python community. to avoid fracturing the ecosystem, we plan to integrate Zarrista as a native…