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Podcast: The Joe Reis Show
Episode: From ODBC to ADBC: Modernizing the Data Stack for AI and Analytics w/ Ian Cook
Description: Why are we still using row-based protocols like ODBC and JDBC in a column-oriented world? In this episode, I sit down with Ian Cook, co-founder of Columnar and a long-time Apache Arrow contributor, to discuss the critical infrastructure changes needed to speed up modern analytics and AI.We dive deep into the technical bottlenecks of legacy standards - specifically the "serialization tax" of converting columns to rows and back again - and how ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) solves this by keeping data columnar from end-to-end. Ian also shares his insights on the intersection of tabular data and...