Apache DataFusion Blog

Articles by Nuno Faria (INESC TEC)

Best Practices for Single Row Lookups (Point Queries)

This blog post covers different techniques to improve the performance of point queries in DataFusion. It is based on a talk (slides, recording) given at the Boston DataFusion meetup, in September 2026.

Introduction

While DataFusion is commonly seen as an engine to run analytical workloads -- which are comprised by queries …