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Personally, after now seeing this, I think it's going to solve a problem for us that we're going to run into in the medium term so that's pretty neat, but we ar
by Grimm1 6y ago
Personally, after now seeing this, I think it's going to solve a problem for us that we're going to run into in the medium term so that's pretty neat, but we are dealing with a lot of data and re-computing certain things from scratch for us would be potentially prohibitive at our scale of data.
I think the main issue is that in most shops is that the scale of their data isn't so large that a re-computation of a query with new data takes long enough that they would want to put it engineering effort to switch off more common tools like spark, airflow and columnar storage dbs. They're also likely, with decent engineering, not yet at a point where they run into tuning issues on their ingest side. An ETL taking an hour every night and then taking a couple seconds to run that query or even have that query set up on a job that just sends out a report isn't really an issue for most small - medium sized companies, and even at larger ones if your data throughput isn't particularly high I don't see people needing to reach for this for the same reasons.
You obviously can do those less intensive tasks in DDF but it doesn't really strongly make a case for itself in those regards, largely because DDF doesn't seem to offer anymore benefit on those smaller tasks, 15s to 230ms is a really tremendous leap in performance but for many companies I doubt the 15s is a bottleneck in the first place so it's not actually solving a problem there, it would be a nice to have.