Hey Gian, I'm familiar with Druid since its start at metamarkets (and a client of that company). I've been following Imply and you guys have done great work at making Druid a lot better over the years.
I guess I should've stated relational columnstore to describe the others. Vertica has S3/remote storage interfaces similar to Historicals and all vendors are adding indexing to columnstore segments beyond partition/zone maps for fast seeks. MemSQL is the most advanced with in-memory tables to augment the disk-based columnstores.
The improved SQL support will help and the overall design of Druid makes sense, but I have to stand by the fact that I find it tough to recommend over the alternatives now. If everything's converging on similar functionality, what would you say is the roadmap for Druid's future advantage?
I guess I should've stated relational columnstore to describe the others. Vertica has S3/remote storage interfaces similar to Historicals and all vendors are adding indexing to columnstore segments beyond partition/zone maps for fast seeks. MemSQL is the most advanced with in-memory tables to augment the disk-based columnstores.
The improved SQL support will help and the overall design of Druid makes sense, but I have to stand by the fact that I find it tough to recommend over the alternatives now. If everything's converging on similar functionality, what would you say is the roadmap for Druid's future advantage?