Future support for Arrow Flight SQL
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
A solution being worked in the Apache Arrow community is the use of an SQL layer over the Arrow Flight protocol, which will allow a client to communicate in a simpler way with a DB backend w/o the need for a multiplicity of drivers.
See for example: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10906 and https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/02/16/introducing-arrow-flight-sql/
**Describe the solution you'd like**
Use an Arrow Flight SQL driver to connect to multiple DBs:

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