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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.
+
+from pyarrow.includes.libarrow cimport GetBuildInfo
+
+from collections import namedtuple
+
+
+VersionInfo = namedtuple('VersionInfo', ('major', 'minor', 'patch'))
+
+BuildInfo = namedtuple(
+    'BuildInfo',
+    ('version', 'version_info', 'so_version', 'full_so_version',
+     'compiler_id', 'compiler_version', 'compiler_flags',
+     'git_id', 'git_description', 'package_kind'))
+
+RuntimeInfo = namedtuple('RuntimeInfo',
+                         ('simd_level', 'detected_simd_level'))
+
+cdef _build_info():
+    cdef:
+        const CBuildInfo* c_info
+
+    c_info = &GetBuildInfo()
+
+    return BuildInfo(version=frombytes(c_info.version_string),
+                     version_info=VersionInfo(c_info.version_major,
+                                              c_info.version_minor,
+                                              c_info.version_patch),
+                     so_version=frombytes(c_info.so_version),
+                     full_so_version=frombytes(c_info.full_so_version),
+                     compiler_id=frombytes(c_info.compiler_id),
+                     compiler_version=frombytes(c_info.compiler_version),
+                     compiler_flags=frombytes(c_info.compiler_flags),
+                     git_id=frombytes(c_info.git_id),
+                     git_description=frombytes(c_info.git_description),
+                     package_kind=frombytes(c_info.package_kind))
+
+
+cpp_build_info = _build_info()
+cpp_version = cpp_build_info.version
+cpp_version_info = cpp_build_info.version_info
+
+
+def runtime_info():
+    """
+    Get runtime information.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    info : pyarrow.RuntimeInfo
+    """
+    cdef:
+        CRuntimeInfo c_info
+
+    c_info = GetRuntimeInfo()
+
+    return RuntimeInfo(
+        simd_level=frombytes(c_info.simd_level),
+        detected_simd_level=frombytes(c_info.detected_simd_level))