Re: Are we the first OSS database with parallel query?

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:41:48AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 08/29/2016 11:39 AM, David Fetter wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 08:41:15PM -0400, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >> I suspect not, but I can't think of another example right now.
> >
> > There are a fair number that beat us to that punch (GPDB, HadoopDB,
> > etc.)
>
> Do they have parallel query on a single node?  I suppose you can have
> multiple shards-per-node, but that's still a different feature.

I don't know of one offhand, but that distinction seems like a *VERY*
thin slice to be claiming.

> Also, are there other *SQL* implementations?

Yep.  You can run SQL in parallel atop Hadoop.

Also: https://shardquery.com/2014/02/25/shard-query-supports-background-jobs-query-parallelism-and-all-select-syntax/

Best,
David.
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