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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+..   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+.. software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+.. "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+.. KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+.. specific language governing permissions and limitations
+.. under the License.
+
+Apache Arrow
+============
+
+Apache Arrow is a development platform for in-memory analytics. It contains a
+set of technologies that enable big data systems to process and move data
+fast. It specifies a standardized language-independent columnar memory format
+for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations on
+modern hardware.
+
+The project is developing a multi-language collection of libraries for solving
+systems problems related to in-memory analytical data processing. This includes
+such topics as:
+
+* Zero-copy shared memory and RPC-based data movement
+* Reading and writing file formats (like CSV, Apache ORC, and Apache Parquet)
+* In-memory analytics and query processing
+
+**To learn how to use Arrow refer to the documentation specific to your
+target environment.**
+
+.. _toc.usage:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :caption: Supported Environments
+
+   C/GLib <c_glib/index>
+   C++ <cpp/index>
+   C# <https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/csharp/README.md>
+   Go <https://godoc.org/github.com/apache/arrow/go/arrow>
+   Java <java/index>
+   JavaScript <js/index>
+   Julia <https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/julia/Arrow/README.md>
+   MATLAB <https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/matlab/README.md>
+   Python <python/index>
+   R <r/index>
+   Ruby <https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/ruby/README.md>
+   Rust <https://docs.rs/crate/arrow/>
+   status
+
+.. _toc.cookbook:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :caption: Cookbooks
+
+   C++ <https://arrow.apache.org/cookbook/cpp/>
+   Python <https://arrow.apache.org/cookbook/py/>
+   R <https://arrow.apache.org/cookbook/r/>
+
+.. _toc.columnar:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+   :caption: Specifications and Protocols
+
+   format/Versioning
+   format/Columnar
+   format/Flight
+   format/Integration
+   format/CDataInterface
+   format/CStreamInterface
+   format/Other   
+
+.. _toc.development:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+   :caption: Development
+
+   developers/contributing
+   developers/cpp/index
+   developers/python
+   developers/archery
+   developers/crossbow
+   developers/docker
+   developers/benchmarks
+   developers/documentation
+   developers/computeir