[mukundesh]

Performance quote:

Compared to existing libraries like PyODBC, Arrow Flight is already as much as 20x faster (~00:21:00). Flight SQL will package these performance advantages into a standard interface, ready for clients and databases to implement.

Would be good to compare with more main stream ODBC/JDBC drivers, especially how it compares to the ones provided by the DBMS providers.

[lidavidm]

The Flight SQL spec landed a bit ahead of implementations. I would have liked to cite more relevant/concrete performance numbers, but we need a full implementation for that! (I believe there is at least one in the works, but I can't speak to those plans myself.)