As of v2.4 VAST ships with a new web plugin that
provides a REST API. The API documentation describes the
available endpoints also provides an
OpenAPI spec for download. This
blog post shows how we built the API and what you can do with it.
VAST bets on Apache Arrow as the open interface to structured data. By "bet," we mean that VAST does not work without Arrow. And we are not alone. Influx's IOx, DataDog's Husky, Anyscale's Ray, TensorBase, and others committed themselves to making Arrow a corner stone of their system architecture. For us, Arrow was not always a required dependency. We shifted to a tighter integration over the years as the Arrow ecosystem matured. In this blog post we explain our journey of becoming an Arrow-native engine.