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Background: I've done a fair bit of hiring for analysts and have worked in most facets of analytics/DW including vendor evaluation/selection and implementation.
by dataminded 13y ago
Background: I've done a fair bit of hiring for analysts and have worked in most facets of analytics/DW including vendor evaluation/selection and implementation.
I think that the lack of a SQL interface is a big negative. It's really hard to find analyst (not programmers) with good technical skills or train them to proficiency in new technologies. I would have a very hard time selling a platform that existing analysts wouldn't be able to use right away and that few people on the market could work with.
Also, designing a new language makes integration with other applications that much harder.
- nXqd 13y agoYou can find the answer to this in coffeemug' post : "We're assuming people will be using ReQL fifteen years from now."
- coffeemug 13y agoThat's a great point. Our hypothesis is that great querying capabilities for analysts and great querying capabilities for programmers should look completely different, and be two totally different technologies. We'll eventually ship a solution for analysts, but I don't think a great database product should shoot for a lowest common denominator.