Hi all, I wanted to open up a conversation here regarding developing a Java-based JDBC Adapter for Apache Arrow. I have had a preliminary discussion with Wes McKinney and Siddharth Teotia on this a couple weeks earlier.
Basically at a high level (over-simplified) this adapter/API will allow upstream apps to query RDBMS data over JDBC and get the JDBC objects converted to Arrow in-memory (JVM) objects/structures. The upstream utility can then work with Arrow objects/structures with usual performance benefits. The utility will be very much similar to C++ implementation of "Convert a vector of row-wise data into an Arrow table" as described here - https://arrow.apache.org/docs/cpp/md_tutorials_row_wise_conversion.html. How useful this adapter would be and which other Apache projects would benefit from this? Based on the usability we can open a JIRA for this activity and start looking into the implementation details. Regards, -Atul Dambalkar
