OmniSci

This section describes usage related documents for the OmniSciDB-based engine of Modin.

This engine uses analytical database OmniSciDB to obtain high single-node scalability for specific set of dataframe operations. To enable this engine you could set the following environment variables:

export MODIN_ENGINE=native
export MODIN_BACKEND=omnisci
export MODIN_EXPERIMENTAL=true

or turn it on in source code:

import modin.config as cfg
cfg.Engine.put('native')
cfg.Backend.put('omnisci')
cfg.IsExperimental.put(True)