ADBC Driver Foundry (github.com)

The ADBC Driver Foundry is a community-organized GitHub group hosting a collection of Apache-licensed projects that implement and support Apache Arrow’s ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) ecosystem. The org consolidates core pieces you’d expect for a production-grade connector stack: language/runtime helpers (driverbase-go), an automated validation framework to test driver behavior, CI and dev tooling, and concrete drivers for systems like Trino, Snowflake and BigQuery. All code is released under the Apache License, encouraging commercial and open-source adoption. For the AI/ML community this matters because ADBC standardizes high-performance, columnar data movement into and out of analytic engines using Arrow’s in-memory format—reducing serialization overhead and making pipelines more interoperable. The validation suite helps ensure driver correctness and interoperability across deployments, while shared libraries and CI tooling lower the bar for new driver development and maintenance. In practice that means faster, more reliable data access for model training and inference workflows, simpler integration of cloud warehouses and query engines, and a growing ecosystem that can scale with production ML/analytics needs.