Hi Julian, Glad to have someone responded to this :) Yes I think going beyond just having no schema defined up front to actually giving users possibilities is definitely a much better interactive experience.
I would imagine though that it could impact Drill, or perhaps build more statistics capabilities in Drill to query schema info, since not all data is just raw files but could be living in different data stores, then I would think we need to talk through the Drill storage engine abstraction to get those info. I'll chat about this with Jacques and folks next monday or in the Drill user group. Tim On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > A recent blog post by Daniel Abadi has a similar theme: > > > http://hadapt.com/blog/2013/10/28/all-sql-on-hadoop-solutions-are-missing-the-point-of-hadoop/ > > We could create a tool that scans the raw files and generates an Optiq > schema that contains views that apply "late schema" (the "EMP" and "DEPT" > views in > https://raw.github.com/apache/incubator-drill/HEAD/sqlparser/src/test/resources/test-models.jsonare > examples of this). The user could interactively modify that schema > (e.g. change a column's type from string to boolean or integer). > > It's a nice approach because it doesn't impact the Drill engine. This is > good. Metadata and data should be kept separate wherever possible. > > Julian
