Making Moves with Arrow Data: Introducing Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)

Apache Arrow is much more than a format – it is an entire ecosystem. In this talk, we'll dive into one of the newest Apache Arrow subprojects, Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC), an API specification for Arrow-based database access. ADBC is an API specification, with APIs provided for C, Go, and Java. The APIs are then implemented by drivers (or a driver manager) which use whatever underlying protocols are needed for the database. The goal for ADBC is to provide applications with a single Arrow-based API to work with multiple databases regardless of if those databases are Arrow-native or not. Application code shouldn't need to juggle the conversions from non-Arrow-native datasources alongside bindings for Arrow-native database protocols.

Over the course of this session, you’ll get a crash course in ADBC and learn how it communicates with different data APIs (like Arrow Flight SQL and Postgres) using Arrow-native in-memory data. By the end, you’ll understand the use cases it can conquer and know where to access the resources you need to get started. 

This talk will cover goals, use-cases, and examples of using ADBC to communicate with different Data APIs (such as Flight SQL or postgres) with Arrow Native in-memory data.