#Python-Blosc2
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- www.blosc.org/python-blosc2/

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Python-Blosc2 Documentation — Python-Blosc2 documentation
www.blosc.org
March 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
📢Blosc2 3.10.2 Released! 📢

Lazy evaluation for ALL Blosc2 functions in version 3.10!

Blosc2 powers:
- Zarr/HDF5 computations (see image and blosc.org/posts/tensor...)
- Server compuation via Cat2Cloud (demo site here cat2.cloud/demo/)!

#Zarr
#HDF5
#Python
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🗣️ Announcing Python-Blosc2 3.8.0 🚀

A step closer to compliance with the array-api standard: data-apis.org/array-api!
This is an effort across all array-based libraries so that your code works (e.g. for both blosc2 and NumPy) by simply changing the import statement below!

#arrayapi #Blosc2
September 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Python-Blosc2 3.3.3 is live! ✨ Bug fixes, smoother string lazy expressions, and Windows mmap improvements thanks to the latest C-Blosc2.

Upgrade now: pip install blosc2 --update

Learn more: github.com/Blosc/python...

#Python #Blosc2 #DataScience

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Releases · Blosc/python-blosc2
A high-performance library for compressed ndarrays, with a flexible computational engine - Blosc/python-blosc2
github.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
📣 Python-Blosc2 4.4.x is out!

🖥️ b2view: interactive TUI browser
🎯 SUMMARY indexes → fast WHERE
🧮 DSL kernels as CTable columns
⚡ Faster chunk-by-chunk writes
🔀 where() via miniexpr

Compressed, NumPy-native arrays & tables.

📝 github.com/Blosc/python...

Enjoy data!

#Python #NumPy
June 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Our Blosc2 tutorial for @euroscipy.bsky.social 2025 is up! Learn how compression boosts tensor data handling, sharing & computing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdpT... #DataScience #BigData #HPC #OpenSource
18.08.2025 Compress, Compute, and Conquer: Python-Blosc2 for Efficient Data Analysis
YouTube video by EuroSciPy
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
💊 IronPill 1💊
Blosc2 calculates Fourier approximations:
⚡5x faster than NumPy
👣 fraction of the memory footprint
🐍 one-line syntax 𝚜𝚞𝚖(𝚊 * 𝚌𝚘𝚜(𝚝) + 𝚋 * 𝚜𝚒𝚗(𝚝), 𝚊𝚡𝚒𝚜=𝟷)

Full notebook: github.com/Blosc/python...

(inspiration: towardsdatascience.com/numexpr-the-...)

#Blosc2
#Data
#SignalProcessing
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Look at the bump in performance that we will see with the next Python-Blosc2 release.

Matrix multiplication has been speeded up by using blocks and Blosc2 prefilters and its own efficient and multithreaded engine.

Expect between 5x and 6x better speed for matrices with no padding.
March 25, 2026 at 7:43 AM
🚀 We're thrilled to announce *TreeStore*, a new class in Python-Blosc2! Endow your datasets with a hierarchical structure! ⚡️

📝 We've blogged about it:
www.blosc.org/posts/new-tr...

It's in beta, and available in Python-Blosc2 v3.7.2. Enjoy!

#Python #Blosc2 #TreeStore #DataScience #OpenSource
August 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Did you know that:

$ conda -c conda-forge install python-blosc2 mkl

will let you fully utilize your CPUs?

⏩ Advanced SIMD
⏩ Multiple cores
⏩ Leverage caches efficiently

www.blosc.org/python-blosc...

Do not let your hardware sit idle; put it to work for you. Kudos to @conda-forge.org team! 🤟
December 19, 2024 at 5:31 PM
The new engine in Python-Blosc2 4.0 delivers quite awesome performance results. Processing a 400 MB array can be up to 9.6x faster than NumPy 🤯

The best part is that it fully supports NumPy's array and ufunc interfaces. High performance with zero friction! 🏎️💨

ironarray.io/blog/miniexp...

Enjoy!
February 5, 2026 at 6:46 AM
🔥 Blosc2 3.2.1: NumPy's best friend! 🔥 blosc2.jit + NumPy array interface = blazing fast, direct compressed data crunching!

See how: github.com/Blosc/python-blosc2/blob/main/examples/ndarray/jit-numpy-funcs.py

#DataScience #Python #Compression

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March 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
📢 We are happy to announce the release of Python-Blosc2 3.2.0!

This release introduces the new blosc2.matmul() function. We have written a nice blog: www.blosc.org/posts/optimi...

Lastly, we are excited to introduce WASM32 wheels for the first time. More info at: github.com/Blosc/python...

Enjoy!
Optimizing chunks for matrix multiplication in Blosc2
Exploring how to optimize chunk sizes in Blosc2 to improve performance in matrix multiplication.
www.blosc.org
March 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
📢 Python-Blosc2 4.13.1 is out!

Continuing our "not an island" mood: stream remote datasets (HDF5, Zarr, B2Z) over HTTP/S3 lazily, and compute across formats in one expression: b2z + zarr * h5! Plus tiered caching & Win ARM64 wheels.

github.com/Blosc/python...

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September 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM
📢 We are pleased to announce the integration of a new stack feature in #Blosc2 🚀, which allows for stacking large arrays along a new axis.

We've updated our recent blog post:
Check it out! 👇
www.blosc.org/posts/blosc2...

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#Python #DataScience #Performance #OpenSource
June 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
✨ Tabular data visualization, fast filtering, smart navigation, remote plotting, and more... with just a text terminal!

This is the new b2view Text User Interface that comes with latest Python-Blosc2 release.

github.com/Blosc/python...

Enjoy!
June 17, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Python-Blosc2 3.3.3 is live! ✨ Bug fixes, smoother string lazy expressions, and Windows mmap improvements thanks to the latest C-Blosc2.

Upgrade now: pip install blosc2 --update

Learn more: github.com/Blosc/python...

#Python #Blosc2 #DataScience
Releases · Blosc/python-blosc2
A high-performance library for compressed ndarrays, with a flexible computational engine - Blosc/python-blosc2
github.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Python-Blosc2 just became a compute powerhouse. ⚡️

v4.0 integrates `miniexpr`: computing on cache-friendly blocks instead of RAM-heavy chunks.

🚀 Result? Massive speedups for memory-bound tasks (up to 4.5x in Cat2Cloud).

See benchmarks:
ironarray.io/blog/miniexp...

#Python #HPC #DataEngineering
February 2, 2026 at 12:12 PM
💡 Python-Blosc2 tip #5: sorted top-k? Stream it from a FULL index

CTable.sort_by(view=True)[:k] and NDArray.iter_sorted(start=-k) read just that slice from the index sidecar instead of sorting everything: up to ~74× less time, ~193× less peak memory.

blosc.org/python-blosc...

Enjoy data!

#Python
July 17, 2026 at 12:47 PM
📢 Python-Blosc2 4.13.0 is out!

One lazy API for unite all remote data: browse B2Z/Zarr/HDF5 hierarchies over S3/GCS/HTTP, slice only what you need, cache in RAM or on disk, and export portable snapshots.

b2view demo below👇

github.com/Blosc/python...

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September 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM
🗣️ Announcing Python-Blosc2 3.6.1

¡Unlock new levels of data manipulation with #Blosc2! 🚀
We've tamed the complexity of fancy indexing to make it intuitive, efficient, and consistent with NumPy's behavior.

👉 www.blosc.org/posts/blosc2...

Enjoy

#Python #DataScience #BigData #NumPy #Performance
July 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
📢 🔥 Article on Blosc2: Compute with TB-sized datasets on your own hardware!

🚀 Outperforms NumPy by 10x ~ 100x for large computations
🐍 Integrates seamlessly with the Python data science ecosystem
💻 Works both in-memory and on-disk with minimal performance differences

ironarray.io/blog/compute...
March 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
📢 The Blosc Development Team is proud to announce the release of Python-Blosc2 3.0.0 final! 🎉 🎉

See an introduction to the shiny new compute engine at: www.blosc.org/python-blosc...

Looking forward to what you can build with Python-Blosc2 3.0!

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December 13, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Blosc2 4.1 Release!

We've packed this minor release: optimised compression and funcs for unicode arrays; cumulative reductions; memory-map support for store containers like `DictStore` ; and a DSL kernel functionality for faster, compiled, user-defined funcs!👇️
Notebook - github.com/Blosc/python...)
March 4, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Python-Blosc2 now has a 🔥 DSL-to-JavaScript transpiler!

Newton-Raphson runs 2.7× faster on the browser! 💨

With #Pyodide, it’s not just Python in the browser: it’s the PyData stack 📊 too, #Blosc2 tacking compression 📦 + computing 🧮 duties.

Demo 👇
blosc.org/demos/newton...
Newton fractal — blosc2's JIT, live in your browser
blosc.org
June 30, 2026 at 12:27 PM