The reason our team (graphistry) is working w/ the BlazingDB team is q's like this. BlazingSQL subsumes RAPIDS / cudf... which now includes the GPU-optimized nv

The reason our team (graphistry) is working w/ the BlazingDB team is q's like this. BlazingSQL subsumes RAPIDS / cudf... which now includes the GPU-optimized nvstrings lib. And instead of a hacky grad student's GPU string lib, this is Nvidia's. We initially bet on OpenCL... but had to write almost everything ourselves. We then switched to GOAI, despite having to write much of Apache Arrow[JS], among other things. I love q's like that now that more and more pieces are falling into place with best-of-class tech. That's a big deal for our users, and helps our small punch above our weight for helping them. 2019 will be fun!