This week, the Apache Arrow project released ADBC 24. Highlights include:
📦 Updated client libraries for 9+ languages
🔌 3 updated drivers (14+ more available)
📖 New and improved documentation site
See the release announcement in the comments for more details 👇
Building the future of fast universal data connectivity.
Joined April 2025
- This week, @columnar_tech & @ClickHouseDB announced the official ADBC driver for ClickHouse. Use it for zero-conversion, end-to-end @ApacheArrow data transfer for analytics & AI applications. It works in C/C++, Go, Java, JS/TS, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, & more. Link in comments👇
- This week, we released a new ADBC driver for Apache Spark, built in collaboration with @getdbt. It’s available now as a pre-release, and we’d love feedback from early adopters. Try it out 👉 dbc install --pre spark Docs and quickstarts are linked in the comments
- This week we announced a new ADBC driver for Apache DataFusion. DataFusion is Rust-native, but now you can use it from 10+ other languages through the same zero-copy Arrow ADBC interface that connects to 30+ other databases and query engines. Learn more: docs.adbc-drivers.org/drivers/datafu…
- This week, we released an ADBC driver for Quack, @duckdb’s new native client-server protocol. Now you can query remote DuckDB servers using the same ADBC interface you already use for local DuckDB across 7+ languages—no third-party server extensions required. Details in blog 👇

