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Apache Arrow Flight as datasource and API

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#4,566 opened on May 20, 2022

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Arrow Flight protocol would be nice both as a datasource and as an API for downstream clients.

Some useful links: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/1413 https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/10/13/introducing-arrow-flight/ https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/tree/master/arrow-flight

Why? It's faster, likely it'll be a great standard. It might make possible adding eg. Datafusion or simple parquet files as a datasource.

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Study the Apache Arrow Flight protocol and the arrow rs library. Understand how Cube currently handles data sources and APIs. Explore the possibility of implementing a Flight SQL endpoint or integration with DataFusion. Look at existing issues and PRs related to Arrow in Cube.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
backendapidatabase
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
3-5 days
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Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Clear
Prerequisites
Rust programmingApache Arrow concepts
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
40