Chapter 11: Future Development and Plans
There is quite a lot of development still going on in the Arrow libraries and utilities. Aside from updating and improving the libraries as they currently stand, multiple efforts are operating simultaneously to build community tools utilizing Apache Arrow. Sometimes, this results in new protocols and technologies; other times, it results in entirely new libraries and software. Given the size of the developer community surrounding Arrow, it's no surprise that there's plenty of development with new things in the works.
This chapter's goal is to get you excited about the development plans and projects that are in the works as of the time of writing. Hopefully, the following will intrigue you:
- Flight SQL is still under heavy development, so we're going to cover it a bit more in-depth, and the future plans such as a generic ODBC driver.
- An extensible and distributed query execution framework called DataFusion and...
