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Dremel-Based Project Accepted As Apache Incubator

Posted by samzenpus on from the read-all-about-it dept.

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."

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  1. no, Drill by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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."

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    1. Re:no, Drill by rk · · Score: 2

      A virtual +1 for the Sagan reference!

        Naming your projects things like Dremel and Drill, even without trademark problems, I think is really stupid from a web search perspective.

  2. Re:Dremel, eh?! by viperidaenz · · Score: 2

    Their core business is straight, they make truck loads from advertising. Search is just one way they present their ads.

  3. Re:Dremel, eh?! by viperidaenz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That, and trademarks are restricted to specific industries.

  4. Re:Not a rotary tool by VortexCortex · · Score: 2

    - ... 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

    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.

  5. Gutted by Tselakus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 :(

  6. I dunno by EvilBudMan · · Score: 2

    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.

  7. Misleading headline by istartedi · · Score: 2

    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.

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  8. Seems very ambitious by dave562 · · Score: 2

    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.