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Summary: no, because row order matters in dataframes. That's why matrix operations are a better computational framework for dataframes than relational algebra.



That's doesn't seem a very defining characteristic. Row order/index is just an implicit primary key column.


The point is which operations you optimize for. Most SQL databases aren't well-optimized for matrix multiplication, but are great with search-style queries, and the opposite for dataframes.


It matters in many non-trivial queries as well.




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