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by gavinray 232 days ago

  > This is compounded by the standardized SQL-centric database driver APIs like ODBC and JDBC.
The criticality of JDBC/ODBC as a platform can't be understated. The JDBC API is the dominant platform for data access libraries. Compare number of drivers for JDBC, ODBC, go/sql, etc.

Newer platforms like Arrow ADBC/FlightSQL are better-suited to high-volume, OLAP style data queries we're seeing become commonplace today but the ecosystem and adoption haven't caught up.

https://arrow.apache.org/adbc/current/index.html

https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/FlightSql.html