arrow-odbc

Fill Apache Arrow arrays from ODBC data sources. This crate is build on top of the arrow and odbc-api crate and enables you to read the data of an ODBC data source as sequence of Apache Arrow record batches. This crate can be used to insert the contens of Arrow record batches into a database table, too.

About Arrow

Apache Arrow defines a language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations on modern hardware like CPUs and GPUs. The Arrow memory format also supports zero-copy reads for lightning-fast data access without serialization overhead.

About ODBC

ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) is a standard which enables you to access data from a wide variaty of data sources using SQL.

Usage

use arrow_odbc::{odbc_api::Environment, OdbcReader};

const CONNECTION_STRING: &str = "\
    Driver={ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server};\
    Server=localhost;\
    UID=SA;\
    PWD=My@Test@Password1;\
";

fn main() -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {

    let odbc_environment = Environment::new()?;
    
    // Connect with database.
    let connection = odbc_environment.connect_with_connection_string(CONNECTION_STRING)?;

    // This SQL statement does not require any arguments.
    let parameters = ();

    // Execute query and create result set
    let cursor = connection
        .execute("SELECT * FROM MyTable", parameters)?
        .expect("SELECT statement must produce a cursor");

    // Each batch shall only consist of maximum 10.000 rows.
    let max_batch_size = 10_000;

    // Read result set as arrow batches. Infer Arrow types automatically using the meta
    // information of `cursor`.
    let arrow_record_batches = OdbcReader::new(cursor, max_batch_size)?;

    for batch in arrow_record_batches {
        // ... process batch ...
    }
    Ok(())
}

Matching of ODBC to Arrow types then querying

Matching of Arrow to ODBC types then inserting

The mapping for insertion is not the optimal yet, but before spending a lot of work on improving it I was curious that usecase would pop up for users. So if something does not work, but maybe could provided a better mapping of Arrow to ODBC types, feel free to open an issue. If you do so please give a lot of context of what you are trying to do.

Supported Arrow types

Appart from the afformentioned Arrow types Uint8 is also supported if specifying the Arrow schema directly.