[Future Data] Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Rows: Columnar Data Connectivity with ADBC
- Speaker:
- Ian Cook
- Date:
- Mon Oct 20, 2025 @ 04:30pm EDT
- Date:
- Mon Oct 20, 2025
- Time:
- 04:30pm EDT
- Location:
- https://cmu.zoom.us/j/96274590594?pwd=ZIhPZi8CFwaVd5kN9sS5uEiuWanTCa.1Zoom
- Title:
- Where We're Going, We Don't Need Rows: Columnar Data Connectivity with ADBC
- System:
- Arrow
- Video:
- YouTube
Talk Info:
ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) is Apache Arrow’s answer to ODBC and JDBC: It’s a database access API and driver standard that delivers data in Arrow columnar format instead of a row-oriented format. ADBC is on a roll, speeding and simplifying data access for dbt, Databricks, DuckDB, Microsoft, Snowflake, and more. This talk presents the architecture of ADBC (APIs, drivers, driver managers, and other tools) and discusses its role in accelerating current and future data systems.
This talk is part of the Future Data Systems Seminar Series.
Bio:
Ian Cook is an Apache Arrow PMC member and the co-founder and CEO of Columnar, a company building fast universal data connectivity infrastructure powered by Arrow and ADBC.