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Dremio: Add support for Arrow Flight JDBC driver

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#8,829 opened on Oct 17, 2024

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We currently use Dremio as our backend and while the RESTful driver provided by the community works, the Arrow Flight JDBC driver should be significantly more performant especially with larger volumes of data

Describe the solution you'd like

Extend the jdbc cube driver to use org.apache.arrow.driver.jdbc.ArrowFlightJdbcDriver

Describe alternatives you've considered

A possible alternative is creating another bespoke Dremio driver that calls Dremio using the Flight RPC protocol directly, rather than using the JDBC wrapper. I think this is possible in node - there's a wrapper that calls to an implementation in Rust, iirc

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Research direction
Study the existing JDBC cube driver implementation in cube js/cube, understand how it connects to databases, and implement a new driver that uses org.apache.arrow.driver.jdbc.ArrowFlightJdbcDriver for Dremio.
Tech stack
javascripttypescriptnodejsjavarust
Domain
backenddatabaseapi
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3
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1-2 days
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Clear
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35