diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ap/apache-orc/cmake-link-abseil.patch b/pkgs/by-name/ap/apache-orc/cmake-link-abseil.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4c1416901f024
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ap/apache-orc/cmake-link-abseil.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/tools/src/CMakeLists.txt b/tools/src/CMakeLists.txt
+index 81e2da6f19..cdb809aed9 100644
+--- a/tools/src/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/tools/src/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
+ target_link_libraries (orc-metadata
+   orc-tools-common
+   orc::protobuf
++  absl::raw_hash_set
+   )
+ 
+  add_executable (orc-statistics
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ap/apache-orc/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ap/apache-orc/package.nix
index 577eb5013e7e6..57d13a92797eb 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ap/apache-orc/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ap/apache-orc/package.nix
@@ -27,15 +27,29 @@ let
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "apache-orc";
-  version = "2.2.1";
+  version = "2.3.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "apache";
     repo = "orc";
     tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
-    hash = "sha256-H7nowl2pq31RIAmTUz15x48Wc99MljFJboc4F7Ln/zk=";
+    hash = "sha256-QQdRzwmUF1Qwxg53kJv1Q6yFuHqSrLYwUxKt+6wK9Hs=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    # Orc's CMake declarations do not correctly attempt to link in abseil,
+    # so we add the relevant library they need. Without these, we get errors
+    # like:
+    # <store path>/bin/ld: <store path>/lib/libabsl_raw_hash-set.so.2601.0.0:
+    # error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
+    ./cmake-link-abseil.patch
+
+    # Protobuf 34 adds `[[nodiscard]]` to several serialization functions. In
+    # order to avoid these warnings causing build failures, we add handling for
+    # this failure case.
+    ./protobuf34-nodiscard.patch
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     cmake
   ];
@@ -65,12 +79,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
 
   env = {
     GTEST_HOME = gtest.dev;
-    LZ4_ROOT = lz4;
+    LZ4_HOME = lz4;
     ORC_FORMAT_URL = orc-format;
     PROTOBUF_HOME = protobuf;
-    SNAPPY_ROOT = snappy.dev;
-    ZLIB_ROOT = zlib.dev;
-    ZSTD_ROOT = zstd.dev;
+    SNAPPY_HOME = snappy.dev;
+    ZLIB_HOME = zlib.dev;
+    ZSTD_HOME = zstd.dev;
   };
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ap/apache-orc/protobuf34-nodiscard.patch b/pkgs/by-name/ap/apache-orc/protobuf34-nodiscard.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..643b7da2aeca2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ap/apache-orc/protobuf34-nodiscard.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/c++/src/ColumnWriter.cc b/c++/src/ColumnWriter.cc
+index 9cdbae0709..d049e91bb1 100644
+--- a/c++/src/ColumnWriter.cc
++++ b/c++/src/ColumnWriter.cc
+@@ -212,7 +212,9 @@
+       }
+     }
+     // write row index to output stream
+-    rowIndex->SerializeToZeroCopyStream(indexStream.get());
++    if (!rowIndex->SerializeToZeroCopyStream(indexStream.get())) {
++      throw std::logic_error("Failed to write index stream.");
++    }
+ 
+     // construct row index stream
+     proto::Stream stream;
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ar/arrow-cpp/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ar/arrow-cpp/package.nix
index 9d1a29b09cc67..ad816e4ff8cc9 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ar/arrow-cpp/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ar/arrow-cpp/package.nix
@@ -131,8 +131,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
       };
 
       # apache-orc looks for things in caps
-      LZ4_ROOT = lz4;
-      ZSTD_ROOT = zstd.dev;
+      LZ4_HOME = lz4;
+      PROTOBUF_HOME = protobuf;
+      SNAPPY_HOME = snappy.dev;
+      ZSTD_HOME = zstd.dev;
       ARROW_TEST_DATA = "${arrow-testing}/data";
       PARQUET_TEST_DATA = "${parquet-testing}/data";
       GTEST_FILTER =