Re: Materialized Views: Next Steps

2024-05-10 Thread Walaa Eldin Moustafa
Hi Szheon, Thanks for the follow-up. It is possible some of the concerns were referring to the backend catalogs, but it is all connected. My main personal concern is from the engine connector APIs point of view, but I share the concern about the catalogs. I think everyone's concern is not about t

Re: [Early Feedback] Variant and Subcolumnarization Support

2024-05-10 Thread Gang Wu
Hi, This sounds very interesting! IIUC, the current variant type in the Apache Spark stores data in the BINARY type. When it comes to subcolumnarization, does it require the file format (e.g. Apache Parquet/ORC/Avro) to support variant type natively? Best, Gang On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 1:07 PM T

[Early Feedback] Variant and Subcolumnarization Support

2024-05-10 Thread Tyler Akidau
Hello, We (Tyler, Nileema, Selcuk, Aihua) are working on a proposal for which we’d like to get early feedback from the community. As you may know, Snowflake has embraced Iceberg as its open Data Lake format. Having made good progress on our own adoption of the Iceberg standard, we’re now in a posi

Re: Materialized Views: Next Steps

2024-05-10 Thread Szehon Ho
Hi Walaa OK thanks for confirming. I am still not 100% in agreement, my understanding of the rationale for separate Table/View objects in the comment that you linked: I think the biggest problem with this is that we would need to modify every > catalog to support this combination and that would