# Apache Arrow Flight RPC

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/apache-arrow/apache-arrow-flight-rpc/  
**Provider:** Apache Arrow — https://apis.io/providers/apache-arrow/  
**Documentation:** https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Flight.html

Apache Arrow Flight RPC is one of 3 APIs that [Apache Arrow](https://apis.io/providers/apache-arrow/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Data Transfer, gRPC, and RPC. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

Arrow Flight is a high-performance RPC framework built on gRPC for transferring large datasets using the Arrow columnar format. It enables efficient bulk data transport between services with client libraries available in C++, Java, Python, R, Go, and Rust. Flight SQL extends Flight with a SQL-over-Arrow interface for database query execution.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Flight.html
- **APIReference** — https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/FlightSql.html
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apache-arrow/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Apache Arrow APIs (2)

- [Apache Arrow Libraries](https://apis.io/apis/apache-arrow/apache-arrow-libraries/)
- [Apache Arrow Format Specification](https://apis.io/apis/apache-arrow/apache-arrow-format/)

## Tags

Data Transfer, gRPC, RPC

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