Chris, That is great that you offer to help.
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:50 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > Jacques, > > If someone hasn't done so already I'd like to volunteer to collect the > data we gather here and to do so going forward. > > Thanks! > Chris > > > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> > Sent: December 6, 2012 12/6/12 > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: What do you want out of Apache Drill? > > 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 >
