Author of "In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow" | Co-Founder at columnar.tech Lover of Randomness and cats. @ApacheArrow PMC Member and member of the ASF
Joined January 2009
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8 Nov 2023
Time for @oredev !! If you're here don't miss my talk today at 10:10 on using @ApacheArrow with #ml workflows! Looking forward to a day of interesting talks and discussions
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In SF during Snowflake Summit June 1-3? Duck out (ha!) to The Dive! Hear from rockstars at Anthropic, Braintrust, Lovable, Hex, & more.
See the future of lakehouses with @J_ , creator of Apache Parquet, and @zeroshade, founder at Columnar (& me!)
Register! thedive.motherduck.com/
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Mar 15
The fastest operation is the one you don’t have to do.
When a database natively supports @ApacheArrow, ADBC can speed up fetching and ingestion by eliminating costly row/column conversions.
How much faster is it in practice? We ran some benchmarks to find out. Link below 👇
ALT An abstract hyperspace warp image inspired by the comedic "going plaid" effect from the 1980s cult film "Spaceballs".
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If you aren't paying attention to some of the Apache Spark Acceleration projects like Gluten, you should!
Gluten just graduated as a Top-Level Project @TheASF
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Jan 29
Fetch query results without ODBC / JDBC bottlenecks. The new ADBC driver for @databricks is now in early release. Install it with dbc. Details in comments.
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私の稼働が空いちゃったので、私と一緒になにかお仕事したい人からの連絡を待っています！
須藤、空いています - 2025-11-27 - ククログ clear-code.com/blog/2025/11/…
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5 Nov 2025
🚀 Launching Supermetal — data replication that just works.
Sync databases to warehouses in real-time or batch — no Kafka, no JVM, no Debezium. Built in Rust & Apache Arrow.
Try it → trial.supermetal.io
Launch post → supermetal.io/blog/launch
#dataengineering #rustlang
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29 Oct 2025
Data and AI are evolving fast, but much of today’s infrastructure still runs on standards from the 90s.
@columnar_tech, from the team behind Apache Arrow, is bringing an Arrow-native protocol (ADBC) that moves data 10–100× faster across systems like Snowflake and DuckDB.
We're excited to lead Columnar's $4M seed round.
Read the full Q&A to learn more: bessemervp.team/47d8gWk
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3 Nov 2025
A new startup, @columnar_tech, looks to streamline the copying of tabular data across systems, using @ApacheArrow and the ADBC API.
By @Joab_Jackson thenewstack.io/apache-arrows…
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29 Oct 2025
Come join the community with our launch! Learn more and come talk to us about data connectivity with @ApacheArrow !!
The future of data connectivity is columnar. Today we launched @columnar_tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @ApacheArrow. Learn more 👉 columnar.tech/blog/announcin…⚡️
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ODBC is getting tired. It can't keep up with the fast new kids in the data world these days. The next generation is ready to take the torch. Meet ADBC, a fast, modern data connectivity standard built on @ApacheArrow. Watch my talk from the @CMUDB seminar: youtu.be/TjlmNGNx77E
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We're building the data infrastructure that AI actually needs.
Current systems were built for humans reading dashboards. But an H100 can consume 4 million images per second.
The future isn't human-scale. It's machine-scale.
Introducing Spiral: Data 3.0 🌀
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21 Aug 2025
Its happening -- DataFusion will (finally) get spilling hash joins. The march to completeness begins
20 Aug 2025
I'd like to start using this platform as a place to post about open source work I do on my off time.
To lead it off, I have posted a hash join spilling proposal in Apache Datafusion. Check it out if you're interested 😀:
github.com/apache/datafusion…
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18 Aug 2025
In September the @columnar_tech crew are headed to @PyDataParis 2025 and the first ever @ApacheArrow Summit. The organizer @QuantStack is a dedicated supporter of Apache Arrow. We’re delighted to be sponsoring the event.
17 Jan 2025
PyData Paris will be back in 2025 ! 🎉
📆 Sept 30th & Oct 1st 2025
📍Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie
Thanks to our early supporters @hopsworks and @UnivParisSaclay's Graduate School of Computer Science.
@NumFOCUS @PyData @PyDataParis
pydata.org/paris2025
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18 Jul 2025
Excited to see continued improvements in embedded query processing in the @ApacheArrow C project: arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/0…
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15 Jul 2025
1/5. @paradedb has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵
techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/pa…
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16 Apr 2025
🚀 Introducing Bauplan
A serverless, code-native platform for building data and AI pipelines — directly on your object store. No clusters. No notebooks. No GUI based workflows.
Just Python SQL S3.
👉 bauplanlabs.com/blog/hello-b…
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14 Apr 2025
Please join @zeroshade at the Atlanta Cloud Conference on April 26th for Apache Arrow: The Great Library Unifier. Register at ticketleap.events/tickets/de…
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27 Mar 2025
I’m excited about xorq! Ibis and DataFusion brought together to orchestrate multi-engine data pipelines, all powered by @ApacheArrow
github.com/xorq-labs/xorq
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7 Feb 2025
A lot of people are ignoring that Go is becoming a commonly used language for prompting pipelines. Python in prototypes and Go in production is another common combo.
6 Feb 2025
Me and the team at @lovable just spent two months rewriting 42,000 lines of code from Python to Go.
Technical deep dive of why we did it what this means:
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