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+Source: arrow
+Version: apache-arrow-0.4.0 
+Build-Depends: boost
+Description: Apache Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data. It houses a set of canonical in-memory representations of flat and hierarchical data along with multiple language-bindings for structure manipulation. It also provides IPC and common algorithm implementations.