Thank you for your introduction. I have only gotten started with Calcite, so I hope to be able to do more. Calcite is a relatively weak as a mineral, but we want the software to be rock-solid, since it is really the foundation of many other projects.
I have been mostly a researcher, but currently, together with a few other brave individuals, we have founded a new start-up, feldera.com, that aims to build a streaming query engine that relies on incremental view maintenance for very efficient execution. Our engine is programmed in SQL, and we believe that we can execute any query in streaming mode, no matter how complex. Calcite is our parser and optimizer. We aim to be good open-source citizens, so we contribute not only to Calcite, but our runtime engine in Rust https://crates.io/crates/dbsp and our compiler backend https://github.com/feldera/feldera/tree/main/sql-to-dbsp-compiler are both open-source. Thank you all for your work on Calcite, which made it possible for us to build a SQL compiler in a few person-months! Mihai ________________________________ From: Stamatis Zampetakis <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2023 1:56 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Mihai Budiu Apache Calcite's Project Management Committee (PMC) has invited Mihai Budiu to become a committer, and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted. Mihai has addressed numerous compile and runtime issues in SQL functions and has made several significant improvements to the test infrastructure to enhance code coverage, quality, and stability. In addition to code contributions, Mihai is highly active on the mailing list, where he answers questions, assists others, and shares ideas for future improvements. Mihai has also been writing blogs and giving talks about Calcite at various events and conferences, showcasing Calcite in both simple and more advanced use cases, which can greatly contribute to the growth of the community. Mihai, welcome, thank you for your contributions, and we look forward to your further interactions with the community! If you wish, please feel free to tell us more about yourself and what you are working on. As your first commit, please add yourself to the contributors list [1] and the community page will re-generate [2]. Stamatis (on behalf of the Apache Calcite PMC) [1] https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/main/site/_data/contributors.yml [2] https://calcite.apache.org/community/#project-members
