diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index bc86e7def..2ce6c8136 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5305,6 +5305,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "arrow",
  "arrow-array",
+ "arrow-buffer",
  "arrow-cast",
  "arrow-data",
  "arrow-ipc",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0d639e42d..f335f0b6a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ ahash = "0.8"
 # Note that this one does not include pyarrow
 arrow = { version = "58.0.0", optional = false }
 arrow-array = "58.0.0"
+arrow-buffer = "58.0.0"
 arrow-data = "58.0.0"
 arrow-ipc = "58.0.0"
 arrow-ord = "58.0.0"
diff --git a/rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml b/rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml
index 378185293..f1d1eed0b 100644
--- a/rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ rust-version.workspace = true
 ahash = { workspace = true }
 arrow = { workspace = true }
 arrow-array = { workspace = true }
+arrow-buffer = { workspace = true }
 arrow-data = { workspace = true }
 arrow-schema = { workspace = true }
 arrow-select = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/rust/lancedb/src/arrow.rs b/rust/lancedb/src/arrow.rs
index d4e7c2c8c..c40459b40 100644
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/arrow.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/arrow.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,19 @@
 
 use std::{pin::Pin, sync::Arc};
 
+// Re-export the arrow crates we depend on so downstream consumers can build
+// `RecordBatch`/arrays/builders against the exact same arrow line lancedb was
+// compiled against, instead of declaring their own (potentially mismatched)
+// direct arrow dependencies. See https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/3575.
+pub use arrow;
+pub use arrow_array;
+pub use arrow_buffer;
+pub use arrow_cast;
+pub use arrow_data;
+pub use arrow_ipc;
+pub use arrow_ord;
 pub use arrow_schema;
+pub use arrow_select;
 use datafusion_common::DataFusionError;
 use datafusion_physical_plan::stream::RecordBatchStreamAdapter;
 use futures::{Stream, StreamExt, TryStreamExt};
diff --git a/rust/lancedb/src/lib.rs b/rust/lancedb/src/lib.rs
index 2ccbf5817..2aa4ab77c 100644
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/lib.rs
@@ -342,3 +342,9 @@ pub use connection::connect_namespace;
 /// Re-export Lance Session and ObjectStoreRegistry for custom session creation
 pub use lance::session::Session;
 pub use lance_io::object_store::ObjectStoreRegistry;
+
+/// Re-export DataFusion so consumers can build the `Expr` values that public
+/// query/merge APIs (e.g. [`query::QueryBase::only_if_expr`]) accept without
+/// declaring their own (potentially mismatched) direct `datafusion` dependency.
+/// See <https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/3575>.
+pub use datafusion;