InfluxData has announced SQL support in its InfluxDB Cloud, powered by IOx, allowing users to explore and analyze their time series data using familiar SQL queries. The SQL support is built on top of Apache Arrow, a project that provides the data representation, storage format, query processing, and network transport layers. A Python library called Flight SQL provides a seamless user experience for interacting with InfluxDB's SQL support. Users can connect to InfluxDB Cloud using a token and bucket name, execute queries using the `execute()` function, and handle query results using a `FlightStreamReader` object that allows streaming of data without filling up memory. The library also supports conversion of Arrow tables to Pandas DataFrames or Polars DataFrames for further analysis and manipulation.