It's poor man's Vertica. Mostly good for analytics workloads. It's quite strange that they didn't reference Bigtable paper at all, while saying "to the best of

It's poor man's Vertica. Mostly good for analytics workloads. It's quite strange that they didn't reference Bigtable paper at all, while saying "to the best of our knowledge, there exists no published deployment of a parallel database with nodes numbering into the thousands". Google had a dozen bigtable clusters with more than 500 nodes and at least one cluster with a few thousand nodes (for the main crawl db), more than 3 years ago.