Thanks Wes. I do have couple more questions, 
- When a table is read using ORC adaptor, it gets read into a memory pool(in my 
case default_memory_pool). How to free this area once the file is processed ?
- Is there any way to read the ORC file metadata from adaptor ?


> On 29-Mar-2019, at 7:18 AM, Wes McKinney <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The Arrow APIs are batch-based, so if you want to go record-by-record
> you would need to develop an interface on top of the
> arrow::RecordBatch data structure
> 
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 2:06 AM Nirmala S <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Now I see there is a ORC adaptor for Arrow which can read ORC file as a 
>> table. With this in place, I intend to use TableBatchReader to read it.
>> 
>> How to get a single record from TableBatchReader ?
>> 
>> 
>>> On 22-Mar-2019, at 12:18 AM, Wes McKinney <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> hi Nirmala,
>>> 
>>> There aren't any tools in the libraries to help you "out of the box",
>>> so you'll probably have to devise your own metadata storage and state
>>> management scheme for such a system.
>>> 
>>> best
>>> Wes
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:53 AM Nirmala S <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>>       I am trying to build a caching layer using Arrow on top of ORC 
>>>> files. The application will ask for a column(which can be of any data type 
>>>> - fixed, variable length) of data from the cache, the cache needs to check 
>>>> it’s metadata to see if the column is already present. If yes, it can 
>>>> return the data to application. If not the data needs to be fetched from 
>>>> ORC files, cached and then returned to application. The application is 
>>>> multi-threaded and is based on C++. Application has a read-only workload.
>>>> 
>>>>       This being the case what is the best method to maintain the metadata 
>>>> and the data in Arrow, is there any good practise ?
>>>> 
>>>>       If cache size is smaller than the ORC file size, should I be putting 
>>>> in a logic to swap the data using some algorithm like LRU or is this 
>>>> already present in Arrow ?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>> Nirmala
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 

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