Comparison with Other APIs

Equivalent concepts between ADBC and other APIs

Concept/API	ADBC	database/sql (Golang)	DBAPI 2.0 (PEP 249)	Flight SQL	JDBC	ODBC
Shared connection state	AdbcDatabase	DB	—	—	—	—
Database connection	AdbcConnection	Conn	Connection	FlightSqlClient	Connection	SQLHANDLE (connection)
Query state	AdbcStatement	—	Cursor	—	Statement	SQLHANDLE (statement)
Prepared statement handle	AdbcStatement	Stmt	Cursor	PreparedStatement	PreparedStatement	SQLHANDLE (statement)
Result set	ArrowArrayStream	*Rows	Cursor	FlightInfo	ResultSet	SQLHANDLE (statement)