https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/adbc/ Recent content in Adbc on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-10-24-adbc-vs-arrow-flight-sql-vs-jdbc-columnar-connectivity-guide/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-10-24-adbc-vs-arrow-flight-sql-vs-jdbc-columnar-connectivity-guide/ <p>Every analytics pipeline built on a classic driver pays the same tax, and almost nobody measures it. A query returns rows: the driver materialises one Python object (or one JVM object, or one Go struct) per row, your code converts those rows into a columnar frame, and then the frame is serialised again to move to the next process. For a 50-million-row scan, that is three full transpositions of the data — the query itself is often the <em>fast</em> part.</p>