diff --git a/.betterer.results b/.betterer.results
index 83032798feb..2e2644ad9aa 100644
--- a/.betterer.results
+++ b/.betterer.results
@@ -439,6 +439,11 @@ exports[`better eslint`] = {
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "3"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "4"]
     ],
+    "packages/grafana-data/src/vector/ArrayVector.ts:5381": [
+      [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "0"],
+      [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "1"],
+      [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "2"]
+    ],
     "packages/grafana-data/src/vector/CircularVector.ts:5381": [
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "0"]
     ],
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/ArrayVector.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/ArrayVector.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3d9ae35fc5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/ArrayVector.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import { Field, FieldType } from '../types';
+
+import { ArrayVector } from './ArrayVector';
+
+describe('ArrayVector', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    jest.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation();
+  });
+
+  it('should init 150k with 65k Array.push() chonking', () => {
+    const arr = Array.from({ length: 150e3 }, (v, i) => i);
+    const av = new ArrayVector(arr);
+
+    expect(av.toArray()).toEqual(arr);
+  });
+
+  it('should support add and push', () => {
+    const av = new ArrayVector<number>();
+    av.add(1);
+    av.push(2);
+    av.push(3, 4);
+
+    expect(av.toArray()).toEqual([1, 2, 3, 4]);
+  });
+
+  it('typescript should not re-define the ArrayVector<T> based on input to the constructor', () => {
+    const field: Field<number> = {
+      name: 'test',
+      config: {},
+      type: FieldType.number,
+      values: new ArrayVector(), // this defaults to `new ArrayVector<any>()`
+    };
+    expect(field).toBeDefined();
+
+    // Before collapsing Vector, ReadWriteVector, and MutableVector these all worked fine
+    field.values = new ArrayVector();
+    field.values = new ArrayVector(undefined);
+    field.values = new ArrayVector([1, 2, 3]);
+    field.values = new ArrayVector([]);
+    field.values = new ArrayVector([1, undefined]);
+    field.values = new ArrayVector([null]);
+    field.values = new ArrayVector(['a', 'b', 'c']);
+    expect(field.values.length).toBe(3);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/ArrayVector.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/ArrayVector.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..01b615162b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/ArrayVector.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+const notice = 'ArrayVector is deprecated and will be removed in Grafana 11. Please use plain arrays for field.values.';
+let notified = false;
+
+/**
+ * @public
+ *
+ * @deprecated use a simple Array<T>
+ */
+export class ArrayVector<T = any> extends Array<T> {
+  get buffer() {
+    return this;
+  }
+
+  set buffer(values: any[]) {
+    this.length = 0;
+
+    const len = values?.length;
+
+    if (len) {
+      let chonkSize = 65e3;
+      let numChonks = Math.ceil(len / chonkSize);
+
+      for (let chonkIdx = 0; chonkIdx < numChonks; chonkIdx++) {
+        this.push.apply(this, values.slice(chonkIdx * chonkSize, (chonkIdx + 1) * chonkSize));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * This any type is here to make the change type changes in v10 non breaking for plugins.
+   * Before you could technically assign field.values any typed ArrayVector no matter what the Field<T> T type was.
+   */
+  constructor(buffer?: any[]) {
+    super();
+    this.buffer = buffer ?? [];
+
+    if (!notified) {
+      console.warn(notice);
+      notified = true;
+    }
+  }
+
+  toJSON(): T[] {
+    return [...this]; // copy to avoid circular reference (only for jest)
+  }
+}