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jens_187 on April 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing Druid: Real-Time Analytics at a Billio...

This is distributed though, which I think makes it quite interesting.

beagle3 on April 30, 2011 [–]

Doesn't make it interesting for me; OLAP queries are very easy to distribute.

Also, kdb+ achieves a "billion rows per second" scan on a similar dataset with just one or two instances (rather than 40), if you know what you are doing.

Color me unimpressed.

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