Yep. I spent 2.5 years at MemSQL, which nailed its colors to the mast of solving distributed joins via good old SQL. It is absolutely possible to have fast scal

Yep. I spent 2.5 years at MemSQL, which nailed its colors to the mast of solving distributed joins via good old SQL. It is absolutely possible to have fast scaled distributed SQL, and a pony. The caveats are falling away one by one.