This sounds like a great direction, and one that would be very
interesting to the community! (Except maybe Marklogic? :-))
Cheers,
Mike
On 2/8/12 1:44 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote:
Guys,
Given that we are at a juncture where either we try to build out this
project and build a community OR remove the project from the
incubator, I have a proposal that I feel will help us get community
interest in the project.
My proposal is to slightly change the focus of the project to cater to
different use cases than originally proposed while still continuing to
build an XQuery processor.
In the original proposal, we proposed to build an XQuery processor to
target multiple input formats. In the beginning there was a lot of
interest in this direction from the mentors which has seemed to quiet
down recently. In the meantime, people have been increasingly
interested in processing large amounts of data. To this end, I propose
that we switch the focus of the VXQuery project to target big XML data
use cases.
In terms of work done, we get to reuse a majority of the code that has
already been built. In terms of the tasks to be done, the immediate
focus will be on parallelizing the existing codebase to be able to
handle large amounts of XML data.
I feel that this slight change in focus will be a fun challenge from a
development standpoint and also will help us gain a community given
the growing interest in Big data processing.
Looking forward to your thoughts.
Thanks,
Vinayak
