Columnar Blog
News, updates, and insights from the Columnar crew
Recent posts
- Introducing Columnar Cookbook - Recipes for database connectivity and data interchange with Arrow and ADBC (April 7, 2026)
- We built an ADBC interface for COBOL - Modern database connectivity meets 1959. It fits better than it should. (April 1, 2026)
- Zero-copy, zero contest - Comparing ADBC performance against the alternatives on two Arrow-native systems: BigQuery and DuckDB (March 12, 2026)
- A Deep Dive into ADBC Driver Optimization - What it takes to achieve good performance across different data systems (February 20, 2026)
- Announcing dbc 0.2.0 - The second release of dbc brings new drivers, pre-releases, private registries, and a seamless experience for humans, tools, and agents. (February 10, 2026)
- 10 Predictions for Data Infrastructure in 2026 - What we see coming in the year ahead (December 31, 2025)
- Using ADBC in Java - New JNI bindings bring ADBC drivers to Java applications (November 14, 2025)
- Announcing Columnar - Back to the future of data connectivity (October 29, 2025)
- Introducing dbc - The command-line tool for installing and managing ADBC drivers (October 29, 2025)