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There is not a list (though right now it is zero, unfortunately); Dremio has been doing some work around this (and contributed the spec and implementation) though I can't speak for their plans.

Just a minor distinction - Flight is lower-level and might be used to build a wire protocol for a database, but a "database supporting Flight" still requires something like Flight SQL to specify how the database expects to serve requests over Flight.

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Yes -- we actively work w/ DB/compute companies supporting Flight w/ ~ad-hoc APIs and are thinking through integration. But seen 0 with Flight SQL (and saw a ~20% lift with Turbodc vs ODBC). So curious about either Flight (ad-hoc) or Flight SQL. The blogpost made it sound like at least 2-3 WIP for Flight SQL, which would be great to learn about & track :)

For Graphistry, we 'simply' expose Arrow-over-REST APIs for streaming/batch upload+download, so no Flight needed, and that's why we didn't build Flight into the original JS Arrow lib. But as we're getting into bigger graphs / multi GPU and wanting parallel IO for DB connectors, been watching...

Ah, interesting to hear what you're doing. I would like to see Flight supported in JavaScript/the browser someday.

Here, the Flight SQL spec landed ahead of implementations, so that's why there's nothing to list yet. I would stay tuned to hear what people do with this. (I can't speak to any plans myself, though.)

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