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Decide on sync vs async DataFrame methods

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
java
Domain
backend, data

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Review the current DataFrame API in this repository and compare it with the asynchronous approach in pgwhalen/datafusion-java, then document a decision on synchronous versus asynchronous methods and the scope that follows from it.

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Description

enhancement
Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?

The current design is using synchronous execution. In https://github.com/pgwhalen/datafusion-java everything seems to be async.

Let's decide how we want to handle this before we add too much more code.

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Java
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