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Introduction to Apache Arrow
Over the past few decades, using big data sets required businesses to perform increasingly complex analyses. Lower memory costs spurred the creation of technologies that support in-memory query processing for https://www.influxdata.com/glossary/olap/ (online analytical processing) and data warehousing systems.

Another benefit of Apache Arrow is its integration with Apache Arrow Flight SQL.

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/02/16/introducing-arrow-flight-sql/ is a “new client-server protocol developed by the Apache Arrow community for interacting with SQL databases that makes use of the Arrow in-memory columnar format and the Flight RPC framework.”

It also enables faster data transfer with the help of Apache Arrow Flight SQL.

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