# Ignition Extensions - Convenience utilities for advanced users

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**Category:** 3rd Party Modules\
**Created:** [September 28, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-extensions-convenience-utilities-for-advanced-users/64615 "2022-09-28T18:41:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-extensions-convenience-utilities-for-advanced-users/64615/48 "2022-11-22T23:56:10Z")

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0.6.0 available now:

> **[Release 0.6.0 · IgnitionModuleDevelopmentCommunity/ignition-extensions](https://github.com/IgnitionModuleDevelopmentCommunity/ignition-extensions/releases/tag/0.6.0)**
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> Commits
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> 8cf83ca: Add dataset equality functions (fixes #14) (Paul Griffith) #15
> c483479: Expose DatasetBuilder and add kwargs for convenient instantiation (#16) (Paul Griffith) #16

Adds:

- `system.dataset.equals(dataset, dataset): Boolean`  
Returns True if both input datasets have the same columns, with the same types, and the same values.

- `system.dataset.valuesEqual(dataset, dataset): Boolean`  
Returns True if both input datasets have the same number of rows/columns, and those rows/columns have the same values in the same places.

- `system.dataset.columnsEqual(dataset, dataset, ignoreCase=False, includeTypes=True): Boolean`  
Returns True if both input datasets have the same column definitions. Use the optional keyword arguments to make the behavior more lenient.

- `system.dataset.builder(**columns): DatasetBuilder`  
Returns a wrapped DatasetBuilder. Provided keyword arguments (if any) are used as column names; the values should be Java or Python types, or the 'short codes' accepted by system.dataset.fromCSV:

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