This looks good to me. The “brief description” isn’t brief, but the detail is warranted since this is the first report.
I agree with your goals #1, #2 and #3. Or in more common Apache parlance, “Build community”. After the report is submitted, let’s have a discussion about how we can achieve this. In future reports, we can include more specific goals. Can you also make sure that http://incubator.apache.org/projects/quickstep.html <http://incubator.apache.org/projects/quickstep.html> is up to date, and mention in your report where you are in terms of adopting infrastructure (lists, JIRA, git, CI, etc.) Julian > On May 25, 2016, at 8:32 PM, Jignesh Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great point Julian and thanks for the prod. > > Here is the first cut. Comments welcome! Will populate the wiki after > collecting feedback from this group. > > ——————————— > > Your project name: Quickstep > > A brief description of your project: Modern servers pack enough storage and > computing power that just a decade ago was spread across a modest-sized > cluster. Given that we are on a technological path to continue to increase > the storage and compute densities of individual server nodes, we must > complement methods that focus on ``scaling-out'' by also developing methods > to ``scale-in'' to fully exploit the hardware capabilities that is packed in > each server node. The initial phase of the Quickstep project focuses on this > scaling-in aspect. Quickstep uses novel methods for organizing data > (including columnar and hybrid storage organization), template > metaprogramming for vectorized query execution, and a query execution > paradigm that separate control-flow from data-flow. Collectively, these > methods achieve high performance on contemporary servers with multi-socket, > multi-core processors and large main memory configurations. To keep the > project focused, the project’s initial target is interactive in-memory data > warehousing workloads in single-node settings. In the near future we plan to > expand from this initial single-node focus to a distributed setting. Early > results indicate that Quickstep is over an order-of-magnitude faster than > existing platforms including Spark 2.0 and PostgreSQL 9.6 Beta1 (that now has > parallel query processing). > > A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards > graduation: > #1: Acquire early adopters > #2: Acquire early adopters > #3: Acquire early adopters > (We know it is that important!) > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware > of: None > > How has the community developed since the last report: We were incubated into > Apache recently, and the developers are actively learning about the Apache > way from two amazing mentors! > > How has the project developed since the last report: This is the first report.
