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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -106,10 +106,12 @@ the different physical layouts defined by Arrow:
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* **Primitive (fixed-size) **: a sequence of values each having the
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same byte or bit width
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* **Variable-size Binary **: a sequence of values each having a variable
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- byte length. Three variants of this layout are supported using
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- * 32-bit offset encoding
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- * 64-bit offset encoding
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- * 128-bit view-or-inline encoding
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+ byte length. Two variants of this layout are supported using 32-bit
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+ and 64-bit length encoding.
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+ * **Views of Variable-size Binary **: a sequence of values each having a
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+ variable byte length. In contrast to Variable-size Binary, the values
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+ of this layout are distributed across potentially multiple buffers
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+ instead of densely and sequentially packed in a single buffer.
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* **Fixed-size List **: a nested layout where each value has the same
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number of elements taken from a child data type.
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* **Variable-size List **: a nested layout where each value is a
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