Language-specific drivers for datasources (like JDBC) being replaced with Arrow FlightSQL (gRPC by default, but transport agnostic) Substrait as a standard for

Language-specific drivers for datasources (like JDBC) being replaced with Arrow FlightSQL (gRPC by default, but transport agnostic) Substrait as a standard for communicating query operations between systems Data of the future will be exposing your datasource over FlightSQL endpoint so every language can use it, and consuming/producing Substrait IR for query plans https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/02/16/introducing-arrow-flight-sql/ https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/02/16/introducing-arrow-f... https://substrait.io/ https://substrait.io/ Apache Arrow and Facebook's experimental query engine Velox are already doing this