Re: Spark as Relational Database

2014-10-27 Thread Peter Wolf
in a star schema. Retrieving our data requires doing many complicated joins across many tables. Can we use Spark as a relational database? Or, if not, can we put Spark on top of a relational database? Note that we don't care about SQL. Accessing our data via standard queries is nice

Re: Spark as Relational Database

2014-10-27 Thread Michael Armbrust
as a relational database? Or, if not, can we put Spark on top of a relational database? Note that we don't care about SQL. Accessing our data via standard queries is nice, but we are equally happy (or more happy) to write Scala code. What is important to us is doing relational queries

Re: Spark as Relational Database

2014-10-27 Thread Peter Wolf
in a relational database in a star schema. Retrieving our data requires doing many complicated joins across many tables. Can we use Spark as a relational database? Or, if not, can we put Spark on top of a relational database? Note that we don't care about SQL. Accessing our data via standard

Re: Spark as Relational Database

2014-10-26 Thread Peter Wolf
... how about retrieving it? We are currently storing our data in a relational database in a star schema. Retrieving our data requires doing many complicated joins across many tables. Can we use Spark as a relational database? Or, if not, can we put Spark on top of a relational database

Re: Spark as Relational Database

2014-10-26 Thread Rick Richardson
are currently storing our data in a relational database in a star schema. Retrieving our data requires doing many complicated joins across many tables. Can we use Spark as a relational database? Or, if not, can we put Spark on top of a relational database? Note that we don't care about SQL

Re: Spark as Relational Database

2014-10-26 Thread Soumya Simanta
... how about retrieving it? We are currently storing our data in a relational database in a star schema. Retrieving our data requires doing many complicated joins across many tables. Can we use Spark as a relational database? Or, if not, can we put Spark on top of a relational database

Re: Spark as Relational Database

2014-10-26 Thread Helena Edelson
requires doing many complicated joins across many tables. Can we use Spark as a relational database? Or, if not, can we put Spark on top of a relational database? Note that we don't care about SQL. Accessing our data via standard queries is nice, but we are equally happy (or more happy

Re: Spark as Relational Database

2014-10-26 Thread Rick Richardson
database in a star schema. Retrieving our data requires doing many complicated joins across many tables. Can we use Spark as a relational database? Or, if not, can we put Spark on top of a relational database? Note that we don't care about SQL. Accessing our data via standard queries

Re: Spark as Relational Database

2014-10-26 Thread Michael Hausenblas
our data requires doing many complicated joins across many tables. Can we use Spark as a relational database? Or, if not, can we put Spark on top of a relational database? Note that we don't care about SQL. Accessing our data via standard queries is nice, but we are equally happy

Spark as Relational Database

2014-10-25 Thread Peter Wolf
across many tables. Can we use Spark as a relational database? Or, if not, can we put Spark on top of a relational database? Note that we don't care about SQL. Accessing our data via standard queries is nice, but we are equally happy (or more happy) to write Scala code. What is important to us

Re: Spark as Relational Database

2014-10-25 Thread Soumya Simanta
. Retrieving our data requires doing many complicated joins across many tables. Can we use Spark as a relational database? Or, if not, can we put Spark on top of a relational database? Note that we don't care about SQL. Accessing our data via standard queries is nice, but we are equally happy