Hello all, It would be extremely helpful if we built a community list of target user flows for Apache Drill. Having a clear set of targets like this will make it substantially easier to validate our deign decisions and implementations along the way. Think of this as an equivalent activity to defining the classic Word Count (Hadoop, Pig), Northwind query example (MSSQL), hello world (...), etc. To that end, please spend some time sharing your use cases on this thread. As part of this, please let us know whether these are hypothetical or real.
Once created, getting community comments across each user flow will help to define what features are most useful to which groups of users. However, if people are critical of early uses cases that are shared, others will be less likely to contribute. As such, I'd prefer that this sharing exercise be more about expanding the possibility space rather than prioritizing it. While comments like "Faster Hive" or "more compliant SQL" are useful, it would be more helpful if you spent more time describing the particular data flows that you run today (including data sources), what your pain points are and things that you can't do today but would like to do. I'd also love to have someone raise their hand to collate this data and continue to drive collection and later efforts around this. So, What do you want Apache Drill to help you with? Thanks, Jacques
