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Dremel-Based Project Accepted As Apache Incubator
itwbennett writes "The technology behind Google's BigQuery analytics as a service is based on the company's in-house ad hoc query system called Dremel that can store and search trillion-row datasets without the complexity and batch limitations of Hadoop. Today, Hadoop vendor MapR announced a new open source iteration of Dremel called Drill, which is now an incubation project with the Apache Softare Foundation. First up for the Apache Drill project: getting a consensus on Drill's APIs so that other vendors can work with it, says project leader Tomer Shiran."
Dremel was the guy's last name, so I'd say that there's probably some basis for it, so they MIGHT possibly get around a trademark complaint.
Then again, if it's an internal product, they're not going to have any problem at all.
Yes, because nobody has their own proprietary data sets to use.
Hadoop is a tool. How you use it is up to you.
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Jeszum crow, at least get past TFH before commenting!
Internal codenames aren't in commerce. And really, worse case, they rename it "Butthead Moto-Tool Corp."
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Their core business is straight, they make truck loads from advertising. Search is just one way they present their ads.
That, and trademarks are restricted to specific industries.
Not a rotary tool...
more fun than Big Data?
Why not? I mean, just think a bit... with a rotary tool and proper attachments, you can...: ...put a spin on the data
...screw it/something/someone - yourself and/or even your customers if so you like
... cut through the crap... or
... spread the $#17 efficiently when it hits (requires the fan attachment)
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That, and trademarks are restricted to specific industries.
yes, i am agree with you.....
- ... thrash data via causing power spikes in circuits. ... break the head of of any screw. ... jump out of the slot and mar any wall. ... strip the threads from any hole. ... severely injure yourself or others. ... sit on it and spin
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No thanks, you can take your over engineered general purpose crap and shove. I prefer Amish DB tools: High quality and hand crafted to fit my needs.
Dremel was the guy's last name, so I'd say that there's probably some basis for it, so they MIGHT possibly get around a trademark complaint.
That possibility probably ended when someone decided to be cute and name the iteration "drill".
In France at least (but I don't suppose it is that different in most developed countries), brands which are highly recognizable benefit from a more general 'protection' automatically (it is supposed any use by third-parties are made with the intent of customers confusing the name with the more known brand, or anyway associating the names even unconsciously). And beside this, while you sure can use the same name for different categories of products/services, it has to be in good faith, without any link to the existing uses, otherwise it is clearly parasitism. Last names do not allow any more. Clearly, the use in question, and the association to the name 'Drill' for the open source version, show the intent to associate with the more known brand. While of course not to confuse people, and used more jokingly, the link is clear, and if this 'Dremel' was a public product, it would most certainly lose a judicial battle. And of course, it is precisely why they changed the name for the public version, and while they probably will receive (or already did if the name was already mentioned in the past) a nice letter reminding them of trademarks, internal uses of the name should normally not be a problem (although using the name publicly, even just in conferences, may possibly be a problem).
I was really looking forward to seeing how they had managed to use a dremel to make birthing aparatus for apache gunships - imagine my dissapointment :(
Can't seem to find any code/documentaion or anything downloadable,
And they alrgedly have something working.
But where is the ... Profit?
Everything I've ever learned the hard way was based on a statistically invalid sample.
Ever heard of Mike Rowe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
Why isn't anyone on topic with this? Who cares what the name is? It's a case of knowing that we can do something, but my question is should we? Should an open source project want to reduce privacy even more so than it is now? Ask yourself that because I read the article and that along with face recognition in Facebook is taking the advertising stuff a little further than what I would think it needs to go to be useful.
I was all excited to think there was a startup that would exploit the Dremel in some interesting way. Affordable machining and DIY numericly controlled tools came to mind.
Then I read the summary and found out it was yet another badly named web technology that will be forgotten in a few years.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
According to the wiki, they are trying to reproduce Google's internal Dremel tool, while at the same time extending it to support a multitude of query languages. Not only do they want to reproduce something that took Google who knows how many years of developer time to create, they also want to extend it.
I wish them the best. Dremel seems like a very valuable tool. I can think of a couple use cases for it today. Google offers access to it via an API, but the problem with that is that the data has to be sent to Google. I am not in the position to send Google terabytes of highly sensitive and confidential data.
But where is the ... Profit?
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