ianmcook commented on code in PR #609:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-site/pull/609#discussion_r1983965681
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+title: "Fast Streaming Inserts in DuckDB with ADBC"
+description: "ADBC enables high throughput insertion into DuckDB"
+date: "2025-03-04 00:00:00"
+author: loicalleyne
+categories: [application]
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+# Fast Streaming Inserts in DuckDB with ADBC
+
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/img/adbc-duckdb/adbc-duckdb.png" width="100%"
class="img-responsive" alt="" aria-hidden="true">
+# TL;DR
+
+DuckDB is rapidly becoming an essential part of data practitioners' toolbox,
finding use cases in data engineering, machine learning, and local analytics.
In many cases DuckDB has been used to query and process data that has already
been saved to storage (file-based or external database) by another process.
Arrow Database Connectivity APIs enable high-throughput data processing using
DuckDB as the engine.
+
+# How it started
+
+The company I work for is the leading digital out-of-home marketing platform,
including a programmatic ad tech stack. For several years, my technical
operations team was making use of logs emitted by the real-time programmatic
auction system in the [Apache Avro](http://avro.apache.org/) format. Over time
we've built an entire operations and analytics back end using this data. Avro
files are row-based which is less than ideal for analytics at scale, in fact
it's downright painful. So much so that I developed and contributed an Avro
reader feature to the [Apache Arrow Go](https://github.com/apache/arrow-go)
library to be able to convert Avro files to parquet. This data pipeline is now
humming along transforming hundreds of GB/day from Avro to Parquet.
+
+Since "any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of
indirection", the original system has grown layers (like an onion) and started
to emit other logs, this time in [Apache Parquet](https://parquet.apache.org/)
format...
+<figure style="text-align: center;">
+ <img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/img/adbc-duckdb/muchrejoicing.gif" width="80%"
class="img-responsive" alt="Figure 1: And there was much rejoicing">
+ <figcaption>Figure 1: A pseudo-medieval tapestry displaying intrepid data
practitioners rejoicing due to a columnar data storage format.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+As we learned in Shrek, onions are like ogres: they're green, they have layers
and they make you cry, so this rejoicing was rather short-lived, as the
mechanism chosen to emit the parquet files was rather inefficient:
+
+* the new onion-layer (ahem...system component) sends Protobuf encoded
messages to Kafka topics
+* a Kafka Connect cluster with the S3 sink connector consumes topics and saves
the parquet files to object storage
+
+Due to the firehose of data the cluster size over time grew to \> 25 nodes and
was producing thousands of small parquet files (13 MB or smaller) an hour. This
led to ever-increasing query latency, in some cases breaking our tools due to
query timeouts (aka [the Small Files
Problem](https://www.dremio.com/blog/compaction-in-apache-iceberg-fine-tuning-your-iceberg-tables-data-files/#h-the-small-files-problem)).
Not to mention that running aggregations on the raw data in our data warehouse
wasn't fast or cheap.
Review Comment:
```suggestion
Due to the firehose of data, the cluster size over time grew to \> 25 nodes
and was producing thousands of small Parquet files (13 MB or smaller) an hour.
This led to ever-increasing query latency, in some cases breaking our tools due
to query timeouts (aka [the small files
problem](https://www.dremio.com/blog/compaction-in-apache-iceberg-fine-tuning-your-iceberg-tables-data-files/#h-the-small-files-problem)).
Not to mention that running aggregations on the raw data in our data warehouse
wasn't fast or cheap.
```
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