“Its competitive performance while being extensible demonstrates that a modern OLAP engine does not need to have a tight-knit architecture. Its mere existence demonstrates that permissive licensing and an open organizational structure [27] are capable of creating and maintaining this level of technology.”
“Apache Arrow DataFusion: A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine.” http://andrew.nerdnetworks.org/other/SIGMOD-2024-lamb.pdf