Columnar

Columnar is a data-infrastructure company advancing open standards for database connectivity. It builds and maintains tooling around ADBC (Apache Arrow Database Connectivity), including dbc — a cross-platform command-line package manager that installs and manages ADBC drivers across macOS, Linux, and Windows and eight programming languages — and databow, a command-line SQL query tool over ADBC. Columnar also ships the DuckDB ADBC community extension and publishes Agent Skills so AI agents can connect to and query databases through ADBC. The company was surfaced as a portfolio company of Bessemer Venture Partners and is built on the Apache Arrow open-source ecosystem.

Columnar is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Data, ADBC, Apache Arrow, and Database Connectivity.

Columnar’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, CLI, changelog, and 9 more developer resources.

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17.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 5/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyDataADBCApache ArrowDatabase ConnectivityDriversCLIDuckDBOpen SourceAgent Skills

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Composite quality — 17.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 5/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

CLI

CLI

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Bluesky

Bluesky

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Columnar
description: Columnar is a data-infrastructure company advancing open standards for database connectivity. It builds and maintains
  tooling around ADBC (Apache Arrow Database Connectivity), including dbc — a cross-platform command-line package manager
  that installs and manages ADBC drivers across macOS, Linux, and Windows and eight programming languages — and databow, a
  command-line SQL query tool over ADBC. Columnar also ships the DuckDB ADBC community extension and publishes Agent Skills
  so AI agents can connect to and query databases through ADBC. The company was surfaced as a portfolio company of Bessemer
  Venture Partners and is built on the Apache Arrow open-source ecosystem.
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- Data
- ADBC
- Apache Arrow
- Database Connectivity
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- CLI
- DuckDB
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- Agent Skills
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  url: https://docs.columnar.tech/
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- type: Blog
  url: https://columnar.tech/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
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- type: Support
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- type: AgentSkill
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- type: CLI
  name: dbc and databow CLIs
  url: cli/columnar-cli.yml
- type: Packages
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- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/columnar-llms.txt
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/columnar-changelog.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/columnar-domain-security.yml
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