Thanks for the reply Lukas! Those are very reasonable criteria, and make perfect sense. Hopefully Spanner will both catch on and get more SQL-like features over time. :)
--Gabor On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 11:51:18 PM UTC-8, Lukas Eder wrote: > > Hello Gabor, > > Thank you very much for your message. > > Indeed, we've observed the announcement of Spanner with excitement. Over > the past years, Google has released and often open sourced a lot of data > related technology. Spanner is by far not the first database of interest. > > Having said so, it is absolutely uncertain where Spanner will be in 3 > years, whether there will be any interesting market for us and for our > users. It has just been added to this list, currently ranking 158: > http://db-engines.com/en/ranking > > As such, the benefit / cost ratio for supporting this database (like many > other interesting databases) is too low at the moment. > > We could also look at the SQL feature set that is currently supported by > Spanner, which is underwhelming for an API like jOOQ. We'd have to exclude > support of 85% of our API for the Spanner dialect. > > Both market share and SQL feature support may change in the future, of > course. > > In the past, we've observed some users who were successful with using a > rather standards-compliant database dialect, such as HSQLDB with these more > rare databases. E.g. I've seen people use jOOQ's HSQLDB dialect with Apache > Hive. Of course, this works until it doesn't, so we generally do not > recommend to use jOOQ with these databases. > > Hope this helps, > Lukas > > 2017-03-11 0:31 GMT+01:00 <[email protected] <javascript:>>: > >> Google recently released it's internal Spanner database as a service on >> their cloud platform (https://cloud.google.com/spanner/). Is it feasible >> / are there any plans to have jOOQ support Spanner's flavor of SQL, and is >> there anything I could do to help, as someone familiar with jOOQa and SQL, >> but not the internals of the library? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "jOOQ User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jOOQ User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
