# ADBC: Arrow's Cross-Platform Database Connectivity API

DevFeed: [ADBC: Arrow's Cross-Platform Database Connectivity API](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/adbc-38702.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/adbc>)

Author: Daniel Beach

Published: 2026-07-20T13:57:32Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Data Engineering Central](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/data-engineering-central.md>)

Topics: [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [client](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/client.md>)

Tags: [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [arrow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/arrow.md>), [client](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/client.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains ADBC, Arrow's database connectivity API. It describes ADBC implementations across several languages and databases, and compares its columnar, minimal-overhead approach with JDBC and ODBC for working with Arrow data.

## Source excerpt

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