Hi guys, I'm PMC of Apache MetaModel and was just watching Tugdual Grall's talk here at Apache: Big Data Europe. I have the feeling that we should try to work together, or at least explore some cooperation, since the way I see it there's a big overlap with what MetaModel tries to archieve and what Drill. And some differences of course. It seems MetaModel is "metadata first" while Drill allows for a lot more dynamic querying capabilities.
Either way, some way of integrating the two projects would be very interesting I think. I'm very open for helping out and giving my input. Someone noticed the lower activity-level we have. Yes, MetaModel isn't the biggest project. Basically this conference (Apache: Big Data) is the first "PR move" we ever did. I did get a lot of interesting feedback from my talk here and I expect that we will attract more people as the word spreads. Integrating with other projects such as Drill is also instrumental for us in doing that, obviously. The other reason might be that Apache MetaModel actually has a pretty long history already, first being founded in 2010-2011 outside of Apache, it's certainly already quite mature and is powering both other open source products (such as DataCleaner) and commercial ones (Stratio Datavis, Human Inference DataHub). Probably more that I don't know of. Anyways... Hope you guys might be interested to do some experimentation here. I think both projects could benefit. Best regards, Kasper Sørensen
