| # Table Classes | |
| Each `Dataset` object is backed by a PyArrow Table. | |
| A Table can be loaded from either the disk (memory mapped) or in memory. | |
| Several Table types are available, and they all inherit from [`table.Table`]. | |
| ## Table | |
| [[autodoc]] datasets.table.Table | |
| - validate | |
| - equals | |
| - to_batches | |
| - to_pydict | |
| - to_pandas | |
| - to_string | |
| - field | |
| - column | |
| - itercolumns | |
| - schema | |
| - columns | |
| - num_columns | |
| - num_rows | |
| - shape | |
| - nbytes | |
| ## InMemoryTable | |
| [[autodoc]] datasets.table.InMemoryTable | |
| - validate | |
| - equals | |
| - to_batches | |
| - to_pydict | |
| - to_pandas | |
| - to_string | |
| - field | |
| - column | |
| - itercolumns | |
| - schema | |
| - columns | |
| - num_columns | |
| - num_rows | |
| - shape | |
| - nbytes | |
| - column_names | |
| - slice | |
| - filter | |
| - flatten | |
| - combine_chunks | |
| - cast | |
| - replace_schema_metadata | |
| - add_column | |
| - append_column | |
| - remove_column | |
| - set_column | |
| - rename_columns | |
| - select | |
| - drop | |
| - from_file | |
| - from_buffer | |
| - from_pandas | |
| - from_arrays | |
| - from_pydict | |
| - from_batches | |
| ## MemoryMappedTable | |
| [[autodoc]] datasets.table.MemoryMappedTable | |
| - validate | |
| - equals | |
| - to_batches | |
| - to_pydict | |
| - to_pandas | |
| - to_string | |
| - field | |
| - column | |
| - itercolumns | |
| - schema | |
| - columns | |
| - num_columns | |
| - num_rows | |
| - shape | |
| - nbytes | |
| - column_names | |
| - slice | |
| - filter | |
| - flatten | |
| - combine_chunks | |
| - cast | |
| - replace_schema_metadata | |
| - add_column | |
| - append_column | |
| - remove_column | |
| - set_column | |
| - rename_columns | |
| - select | |
| - drop | |
| - from_file | |
| ## ConcatenationTable | |
| [[autodoc]] datasets.table.ConcatenationTable | |
| - validate | |
| - equals | |
| - to_batches | |
| - to_pydict | |
| - to_pandas | |
| - to_string | |
| - field | |
| - column | |
| - itercolumns | |
| - schema | |
| - columns | |
| - num_columns | |
| - num_rows | |
| - shape | |
| - nbytes | |
| - column_names | |
| - slice | |
| - filter | |
| - flatten | |
| - combine_chunks | |
| - cast | |
| - replace_schema_metadata | |
| - add_column | |
| - append_column | |
| - remove_column | |
| - set_column | |
| - rename_columns | |
| - select | |
| - drop | |
| - from_blocks | |
| - from_tables | |
| ## Utils | |
| [[autodoc]] datasets.table.concat_tables | |
| [[autodoc]] datasets.table.list_table_cache_files | |